Textos textiles en la tradición cultural andina
Textos textiles en la tradición cultural andina
"Traditionally, "the sacred" has been defined from Western perspectives as related to divinity or dedicated to religious purposes and also, the opposite of the profane, according to Eliade. Frequently it is assumed that the sacred is experienced basically in spatial and ritual a…
"Explores challenges to democracy in the Andes - Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela - through the lens of political crises caused by elected leaders who abuse their power, often with broad public approval"--
"Explores challenges to democracy in the Andes - Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela - through the lens of political crises caused by elected leaders who abuse their power, often with broad public approval"--
"The book provides insights into community narratives concerning life in the face of creeping calamities through a case study from the Colombian Andes. It sets out to make sense of the lived experience of disasters that are slowly unfolding as well disasters that have not yet oc…
"The book provides insights into community narratives concerning life in the face of creeping calamities through a case study from the Colombian Andes. It sets out to make sense of the lived experience of disasters that are slowly unfolding as well disasters that have not yet oc…
"The book provides insights into community narratives concerning life in the face of creeping calamities through a case study from the Colombian Andes. It sets out to make sense of the lived experience of disasters that are slowly unfolding as well disasters that have not yet oc…
Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide brings together archaeologists, linguists, geneticists, anthropologists, ethnohistorians and historians to explore the meeting of the Andes and Amazonia, from deepest prehistory up tothe European colonial period.
Nowhere on Earth is there an ecological transformation so swift and so extreme as between the snow line of the high Andes and the tropical rainforest of Amazonia. Because of that, the different disciplines that research the human past in South America have tended to treat these …
Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide brings together archaeologists, linguists, geneticists, anthropologists, ethnohistorians and historians to explore the meeting of the Andes and Amazonia, from deepest prehistory up to the European colonial period.
"In this work, Peter Gose demonstrates the ways in which Andeans converted conquests into relations of kinship and obligation. They worshipped Christianized and racially 'white' spirits after the Spaniards invaded, though the conquering Spaniards prevented actual kinship bonds w…
Introduction -- Viracochas : ancestors, deities, and apostles -- Diseases and separatism -- Reduccion and the struggle over burial -- Strategies of coexistence -- Ayllus in transition -- The rise of the mountain spirits -- Ancestral reconfigurations in the ethnographic record.
"In this work, Peter Gose demonstrates the ways in which Andeans converted conquests into relations of kinship and obligation. They worshipped Christianized and racially 'white' spirits after the Spaniards invaded, though the conquering Spaniards prevented actual kinship bonds w…