Book
Rimarishpa Kausanchik: dialogical encounters: festive ritual practices and the making of the Otavalan moral and mythic community
ProQuest Information and Learning Company • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 2007 • Pages:
By: Wibbelsman, Michelle C..
Abstract
In this doctoral dissertation the author examines ritual and festival practices not as periodic interruptions in daily life but as integral, ongoing processes of social engagement that aid in comprehending, negotiating and managing inevitable upheavals in culture and identity caused by physical relocation of segments of the population in an increasingly transnational socioeconomic system.
- Subjects
- Organized ceremonial
- Cult of the dead
- Ritual
- Brawls, riots, and banditry
- Cosmology
- Cultural revitalization and ethnogenesis
- Ethnogeography
- Social relationships and groups
- culture
- Otavalo Quichua
- HRAF PubDate
- 2010
- Region
- South America
- Sub Region
- Central Andes
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Leon G. Doyon ; 2009
- Field Date
- 2000-2001
- Coverage Date
- 1995-2004
- Coverage Place
- Cantons of Otavalo and Cotacachi, Imbabura Province, Ecuador
- Notes
- Michelle C. Wibbelsman
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2004
- UMI 3153461
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-271)
- LCSH
- Otavalo Indians