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Culture summaryessay 1997 • Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo
Kogi • South America > Northwestern South America
This is a culture summary of the Kogi....The sacred mountain of Colombia's Kogi IndiansBook 1990 • Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo
Kogi • South America > Northwestern South America
This book on the religious symbolism of the Kogi Indians includes an introductory text and eighty photographs. The archtypal symbol of Kogi religion is a St. Andrews cross, which owes its significance to the stabilizing cross-sticks of a loom. Weavin...Training for the priesthood among the Kogi of Colombiaessay 1976 • Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo
Kogi • South America > Northwestern South America
This article is a description of the engrossing and rigorous training of Kogi native priests, an eighteen year trial in which a child of two or three years of age is taken from his home to live with a priest (mama) and his family in an isolated uplan...Cultural change and environmental awarenessarticle 1982 • Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo
Kogi • South America > Northwestern South America
This article is a discussion of Kogi adaptation to living and farming on the slopes and foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains in northern Colombia. The Kogi are descendents of refugees from a coastal chiefdom that was conquered by the Spaniards in...Funerary customs and religious symbolism among the Kogiessay 1974 • Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo
Kogi • South America > Northwestern South America
The first part of this article is a detailed description of an Ika funeral that was administered by a Kogi priest and observed by the ethnographer, Reichel-Dolmatoff. In the second part, the author refers to Kogi cosmology to explain the symbolism us...The loom of lifearticle 1978 • Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo
Kogi • South America > Northwestern South America
This article is a rich ethnographic account of the symbolic importance of weaving in Kogi culture. Unlike neighboring tribes, the Kogi do not buy ready-made clothes, but continue to grow their own cotton, spin their own yarn and weave their own cloth...Some Kogi models of the beyondarticle 1984 • Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo
Kogi • South America > Northwestern South America
This article is a comprehensive discussion of the Kogi cosmology and theological system based on interviews with several Kogi native priests. The text is replete with diagrams of various versions of Kogi cosmology, all of which have implication for s...The Great Mother and the Kogi universearticle 1987 • Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo
Kogi • South America > Northwestern South America
In this article, Reichel-Dolmatoff presents several detailed versions of Kogi cosmology and mythology. The Kogi supreme deity is the Great Mother, Haba Gaulcovang, who creates the universe by concentrating her thought on a ninefold structure which th...Amazonian cosmosBook 1971 • Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo
Tukano • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This work is a study of the religious symbolism of a small group of tropical rain forest Indians known as the Desana (a subgroup of Tucano) living in the Vaupés region of Colombia's northwest Amazon area. Much of the information is based on the autho...Shamanism and art of the eastern Tukanoan IndiansBook 1987 • Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo
Tukano • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
After a brief introduction to Tukano ethnography, Reichel-Dolmatoff proceeds to an expansive discussion of the role of the shaman in eastern Tukanoan society. As background to the study, the author discusses cosmogony and the mythical past, and then ...The Kogibook chapter 1950 • Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo & Muirden, Sydney
Kogi • South America > Northwestern South America
Reichel-Dolmatoff gives a rich and precise description of Kogi culture as he found it during the 1940s and as he could reconstruct it for the past from various historical evidences (archaeology, archives, tribal traditions and myths). He presents an ...The Kogibook chapter 1951 • Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo & Muirden, Sydney
Kogi • South America > Northwestern South America
This volume covers mainly mythology (in the form of translated texts of myths, with some consideration given to variant versions), religion, and the life-cycle. Reichel-Dolmatoff emphasizes the pervasive role of religion in the society, and its impac...