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The Entablo Manuscript
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Author : Sarah Bennison
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2023-09-26
The Entablo Manuscript written by Sarah Bennison and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-26 with History categories.
"The Andes are a dry region. Water from melting glaciers, however, forms rivers and lakes that feed irrigation canals that have sustained communities for thousands of years. Managing and maintaining these water resources, then, is essential, and it is not surprising that the attendant responsibilities are grounded in religion. In 1921, in the village of San Pedro de Casta, Peru, when some folks were shirking their responsibilities (and claiming there was nothing written down to hold them accountable), local authorities detailed their duties in a Spanish-language document called the Entablo. This project consists of a critical introduction to the Entablo, a diplomatic transcription of the Spanish language manuscript, and an annotated English translation. The Entablo offers a wealth of insight into local rituals, religion, and community history, especially at an historical moment when these communities were changing rapidly. One of the unique aspects of the Entablo is that it provides instructions for the use of khipu boards, devices that meld the traditional khipus with a written alphabet"--
The Entablo Manuscript
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Author : Sarah Bennison
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2023-10-24
The Entablo Manuscript written by Sarah Bennison and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-24 with Social Science categories.
A unique study of an Andean community’s water rituals and the extraordinary document describing how they should be performed In the dry season in the Andes, water from springs, lakes, reservoirs, and melting glaciers feeds irrigation canals that have sustained communities for thousands of years. Managing and maintaining these water infrastructures is essential, and in 1921, in the village of San Pedro de Casta, Peru, local authorities recorded their ritual canal-cleaning duties in a Spanish-language document called the Entablo. It is only the second book (along with the Huarochirí Manuscript) ever seen by scholars in which an Andean community explains its customs and ritual laws in its own words. Sarah Bennison offers a critical introduction to the Entablo, a Spanish transcription of the document, and an English translation. Among its other revelations, the Entablo delves into the use of khipu boards, devices that meld the traditional knotted strings known as khipus with a written alphabet. Only in the Entablo do we learn that there were multiple khipu boards associated with a single canal-cleaning ritual, or that there were separate khipu records for men and women. The Entablo manuscript furnishes unparalleled insights into Andean rituals, religion, and community history at a historical moment when rural highland communities were changing rapidly.
Sobre La Vida De Los Antiguos Hombres De Este Pueblo Llamado Huarochir
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Author : Celia Rubina
language : es
Publisher: Fondo Editorial de la PUCP
Release Date : 2024-04-22
Sobre La Vida De Los Antiguos Hombres De Este Pueblo Llamado Huarochir written by Celia Rubina and has been published by Fondo Editorial de la PUCP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-22 with History categories.
El Manuscrito quechua de Huarochirí es un texto fundamental de la cultura oral andina y una fuente documental única para conocer las tradiciones, los relatos míticos, los antiguos rituales y las tensiones sociales de una población andina en proceso de evangelización durante el primer período colonial. La lectura contemporánea del Manuscrito suscita muchas interrogantes a las que este libro busca responder a través de la confluencia de la lingüística, la antropología, la semiótica, la arqueología, la literatura y la historia. Cada estudio analiza un aspecto, como la delicada cuestión de la autoría del Manuscrito, que encuentra aquí dos respuestas distintas y acaso complementarias; el motivo etnoliterario de la «seducción», tan recurrente como fascinante; el estudio de la etimología de los nombres de huacas y héroes; y el establecimiento del ciclo mítico del huaca más importante de la región, Pariacaca. Otros ensayos involucran el presente para leer el pasado, recorriendo los espacios de la geografía de Huarochirí desde perspectivas antropológicas y arqueológicas. También están presentes las tradiciones orales y los rituales contemporáneos con los que los jefes de los ayllus y las comunidades elaboran hoy sus propios manuscritos. Todas estas contribuciones, escritas por algunos de los más eminentes investigadores de la materia, hacen de este libro un aporte sustantivo en los estudios sobre el Manuscrito y el universo mítico-ritual «de los antiguos hombres de este pueblo llamado Huarochirí».
The Huarochiri Manuscript
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Author : Frank Salomon
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-07-05
The Huarochiri Manuscript written by Frank Salomon and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-05 with Social Science categories.
One of the great repositories of a people's world view and religious beliefs, the Huarochirí Manuscript may bear comparison with such civilization-defining works as Gilgamesh, the Popul Vuh, and the Sagas. This translation by Frank Salomon and George L. Urioste marks the first time the Huarochirí Manuscript has been translated into English, making it available to English-speaking students of Andean culture and world mythology and religions. The Huarochirí Manuscript holds a summation of native Andean religious tradition and an image of the superhuman and human world as imagined around A.D. 1600. The tellers were provincial Indians dwelling on the west Andean slopes near Lima, Peru, aware of the Incas but rooted in peasant, rather than imperial, culture. The manuscript is thought to have been compiled at the behest of Father Francisco de Avila, the notorious "extirpator of idolatries." Yet it expresses Andean religious ideas largely from within Andean categories of thought, making it an unparalleled source for the prehispanic and early colonial myths, ritual practices, and historic self-image of the native Andeans. Prepared especially for the general reader, this edition of the Huarochirí Manuscript contains an introduction, index, and notes designed to help the novice understand the culture and history of the Huarochirí-area society. For the benefit of specialist readers, the Quechua text is also supplied.
Religious Conflict In Brazil
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Author : Erika Helgen
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2020-06-23
Religious Conflict In Brazil written by Erika Helgen and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-23 with History categories.
The story of how Brazilian Catholics and Protestants confronted one of the greatest shocks to the Latin American religious system in its 500-year history This innovative study explores the transition in Brazil from a hegemonically Catholic society to a religiously pluralistic society. With sensitivity, Erika Helgen shows that the rise of religious pluralism was fraught with conflict and violence, as Catholic bishops, priests, and friars organized intense campaigns against Protestantism. These episodes of religious violence were not isolated outbursts of reactionary rage, but rather formed part of a longer process through which religious groups articulated their vision for Brazil’s national future.
Rethinking Relations And Animism
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Author : Miguel Astor-Aguilera
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-10-09
Rethinking Relations And Animism written by Miguel Astor-Aguilera and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-09 with Religion categories.
Personhood and relationality have re-animated debate in and between many disciplines. We are in the midst of a simultaneous "ontological turn", a "(re)turn to things" and a "relational turn", and also debating a "new animism". It is increasingly recognised that the boundaries between the "natural" and "social" sciences are of heuristic value but might not adequately describe reality of a multi-species world. Following rich and provocative dialogues between ethnologists and Indigenous experts, relations between the received knowledge of Western Modernity and that of people who dwell and move within different ontologies have shifted. Reflection on human relations with the larger-than-human world can no longer rely on the outdated assumption that "nature" and "cultures" already accurately describe the lineaments of reality. The chapters in this volume advance debates about relations between humans and things, between scholars and others, and between Modern and Indigenous ontologies. They consider how terms in diverse communities might hinder or help express, evidence and explore improved ways of knowing and being in the world. Contributors to this volume bring different perspectives and approaches to bear on questions about animism, personhood, materiality, and relationality. They include anthropologists, archaeologists, ethnographers, and scholars of religion.
Walking To Magdalena
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Author : Seth Schermerhorn
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2019
Walking To Magdalena written by Seth Schermerhorn and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with History categories.
In Walking to Magdalena, Seth Schermerhorn explores a question that is central to the interface of religious studies and Native American and indigenous studies: What have Native peoples made of Christianity? By focusing on the annual pilgrimage of the Tohono O'odham to Magdalena in Sonora, Mexico, Schermerhorn examines how these indigenous people of southern Arizona have made Christianity their own. This walk serves as the entry point for larger questions about what the Tohono O'odham have made of Christianity. With scholarly rigor and passionate empathy, Schermerhorn offers a deep understanding of Tohono O'odham Christian traditions as practiced in everyday life and in the words of the O'odham themselves. The author's rich ethnographic description and analyses are also drawn from his experiences accompanying a group of O'odham walkers on their pilgrimage to Saint Francis in Magdalena. For many years scholars have agreed that the journey to Magdalena is the largest and most significant event in the annual cycle of Tohono O'odham Christianity. Never before, however, has it been the subject of sustained scholarly inquiry. Walking to Magdalena offers insight into religious life and expressive culture, relying on extensive field study, videotaped and transcribed oral histories of the O'odham, and archival research. The book illuminates indigenous theories of personhood and place in the everyday life, narratives, songs, and material culture of the Tohono O'odham.
Andean Cosmopolitans
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Author : José Carlos de la Puente Luna
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2018-01-17
Andean Cosmopolitans written by José Carlos de la Puente Luna and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-17 with History categories.
After the Spanish victories over the Inca claimed Tawantinsuyu for Charles V in the 1530s, native Andeans undertook a series of perilous trips from Peru to the royal court in Spain. Ranging from an indigenous commoner entrusted with delivering birds of prey for courtly entertainment to an Inca prince who spent his days amid titles, pensions, and other royal favors, these sojourners were both exceptional and paradigmatic. Together, they shared a conviction that the sovereign's absolute authority would guarantee that justice would be done and service would receive its due reward. As they negotiated their claims with imperial officials, Amerindian peoples helped forge the connections that sustained the expanding Habsburg realm's imaginary and gave the modern global age its defining character. Andean Cosmopolitans recovers these travelers' dramatic experiences, while simultaneously highlighting their profound influences on the making and remaking of the colonial world. While Spain's American possessions became Spanish in many ways, the Andean travelers (in their cosmopolitan lives and journeys) also helped to shape Spain in the image and likeness of Peru. De la Puente brings remarkable insights to a narrative showing how previously unknown peoples and ideas created new power structures and institutions, as well as novel ways of being urban, Indian, elite, and subject. As indigenous people articulated and defended their own views regarding the legal and political character of the "Republic of the Indians," they became state-builders of a special kind, cocreating the colonial order.
Shinto Nature And Ideology In Contemporary Japan
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Author : Aike P. Rots
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-09-07
Shinto Nature And Ideology In Contemporary Japan written by Aike P. Rots and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-07 with Religion categories.
Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan is the first systematic study of Shinto's environmental turn. The book traces the development in recent decades of the idea of Shinto as an 'ancient nature religion,' and a resource for overcoming environmental problems. The volume shows how these ideas gradually achieved popularity among scientists, priests, Shinto-related new religious movements and, eventually, the conservative shrine establishment. Aike P. Rots argues that central to this development is the notion of chinju no mori: the sacred groves surrounding many Shinto shrines. Although initially used to refer to remaining areas of primary or secondary forest, today the term has come to be extended to any sort of shrine land, signifying not only historical and ecological continuity but also abstract values such as community spirit, patriotism and traditional culture. The book shows how Shinto's environmental turn has also provided legitimacy internationally: influenced by the global discourse on religion and ecology, in recent years the Shinto establishment has actively engaged with international organizations devoted to the conservation of sacred sites. Shinto sacred forests thus carry significance locally as well as nationally and internationally, and figure prominently in attempts to reposition Shinto in the centre of public space.
Spirits Of Blood Spirits Of Breath
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Author : Barbara Alice Mann
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-01-06
Spirits Of Blood Spirits Of Breath written by Barbara Alice Mann and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-06 with Religion categories.
Before invasion, Turtle Island-or North America-was home to vibrant cultures that shared long-standing philosophical precepts. The most important and wide-spread of these was the view of reality as a collaborative binary known as the Twinned Cosmos of Blood and Breath. This binary system was built on the belief that neither half of the cosmos can exist without its twin. Both halves are, therefore, necessary and good. Western anthropologists typically shorthand the Twinned Cosmos as "Sky and Earth" but this erroneously saddles it with Christian baggage and, worse, imposes a hierarchy that puts sky quite literally above earth. None of this Western ideology legitimately applies to traditional Indigenous American thought, which is about equal cooperation and the continual recreation of reality. Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath examines traditional historical concepts of spirituality among North American Indians both at and, to the extent it can be determined, before contact. In doing so, Barbara Alice Mann rescues the authentically indigenous ideas from Western, and especially missionary, interpretations. In addition to early European source material, she uses Indian oral traditions, traced as much as possible to their earliest versions and sources, and Indian records, including pictographs, petroglyphs, bark books, and wampum. Moreover, Mann respects each Indigenous culture as a discrete unit, rather than generalizing them as is often done in Western anthropology. To this end, she collates material in accordance with actual historical, linguistic, and traditional linkages among the groups at hand, with traditions clearly identified by group and, where recorded, by speaker. In this way she provides specialists and non-specialists alike a window into the purportedly lost, and often caricatured, world of Indigenous American thought.