Ritos y ceremonias andinas en torno a la vida y la muerte en el noroeste Argentino
By: Amalia Vargas
Publisher: Editorial Biblos
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Buenos Aires
Language: spa
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9789876919005
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Funeral rites and ceremonies; Indians of South America; Funeral customs and rites; Funérailles; Rites et cérémonies
Description: With remarkable ethnographic precision and fidelity to ancestral mandates, Amalia Vargas describes and analyzes the Andean mortuary rituals in northwestern Argentina that are part of her own culture. Vargas offers not only an approach to beliefs about death, but also, and fundamentally, to the meaning that a community gives to life. This sense is woven from the celebration of the cult that people give to their ancestors who preceded them, the continuity of tradition and life, which contains a particular vision of the world. Such a particularity gives this and other Andean communities a universal breath that is associated with a shared concern for human beings of all times and places.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-261).
Table of contents: title: El significado de la muerte; title: La muerte y los pasos rituales; title: El luto y el duelo; title: Río de purificación; title: Ritos de despedida de las almas; title: El cuerpo, el altar y su valor simbólico; title: Construcción de imágenes del muerto; title: En ritualidad constante; title: El compadrazgo del Día de los Difuntos.