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The Neo-Indians
The Neo-Indians is a rich ethnographic study of the emergence of the neo-Indian movement—a new form of Indian identity based on largely reinvented pre-colonial cultures and comprising a diverse group of people attempting to re-create purified pre-colonial indigenous beliefs and ritual practices without the contaminating influences of modern society. There is no full-time neo-Indian. Both indigenous and non-indigenous practitioners assume Indian identities only when deemed spiritually significant. In their daily lives, they are average members of modern society, dressing in Western clothing, working at middle-class jobs, and retaining their traditional religious identities. As a result of t...
Gods and Vampires
When Nathan Wachtel, the distinguished historical anthropologist, returned to the village of Chipaya, the site of his extensive fieldwork in the Bolivian Andes, he learned a group of Uru Indians was being incarcerated and tortured for no apparent reason. Even more strangely, no one—not even his closest informant and friend—would speak about it. Wachtel discovered that a series of recent deaths and misfortunes in Chipaya had been attributed to the evil powers of the Urus, a group usually regarded with suspicion by the other ethnic groups. Those incarcerated were believed to be the chief sorcerers and vampires whose paganistic practices had brought death to Chipaya by upsetting the social ...
The Language of the Inka since the European Invasion
The Inka empire, Tawantinsuyu, fell to Spanish invaders within a year's time (1532-1533), but Quechua, the language of the Inka, is still the primary or only language of millions of Inka descendants throughout the southern Andes. In this innovative study, Bruce Mannheim synthesizes all that is currently known about the history of Southern Peruvian Quechua since the Spanish invasion, providing new insights into the nature of language change in general, into the social and historical contexts of language change, and into the cultural conditioning of linguistic change. Mannheim first discusses changes in the social setting of language use in the Andes from the time of the first European contact...
La Passion selon Séville
À Séville de grands rituels mobilisant l'ensemble du corps social se succèdent tout au long de l'année : semaine sainte, ouverture de la saison des corridas, feria, pèlerinage de Rocío et Corpus Christi. Flamboyantes et exotiques, ces célébrations d'un catholicisme populaire exercent sur quiconque y porte un regard une forme de fascination. Du meurtre de Notre Père Jésus lors de la semaine sainte à la pulsion du désir retrouvé et maîtrisé lors de la corrida de resurrección, à la feria qui célèbre l'émergence de la parenté, au rapt de la Vierge en Mère à laquelle le pèlerin doit finalement renoncer, et enfin, à la consommation festive du corps de Notre Père Jésus : ...
The Power of Huacas
The role of the religious specialist in Andean cultures of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries was a complicated one, balanced between local traditions and the culture of the Spanish. In The Power of Huacas, Claudia Brosseder reconstructs the dynamic interaction between religious specialists and the colonial world that unfolded around them, considering how the discourse about religion shifted on both sides of the Spanish and Andean relationship in complex and unexpected ways. In The Power of Huacas, Brosseder examines evidence of transcultural exchange through religious history, anthropology, and cultural studies. Taking Andean religious specialists—or hechizeros (sorcerer...
The Neo-Indians
The Neo-Indians is a rich ethnographic study of the emergence of the neo-Indian movement—a new form of Indian identity based on largely reinvented pre-colonial cultures and comprising a diverse group of people attempting to re-create purified pre-colonial indigenous beliefs and ritual practices without the contaminating influences of modern society. There is no full-time neo-Indian. Both indigenous and non-indigenous practitioners assume Indian identities only when deemed spiritually significant. In their daily lives, they are average members of modern society, dressing in Western clothing, working at middle-class jobs, and retaining their traditional religious identities. As a result of t...
La vallée sacrée des Andes
3e de couverture : Yucay est-elle une illusion de communauté andine ou une société mobilisée en permanence pour reproduire sa spécificité? L'organisation de la Vallée Sacrée est ici déchiffrée au passé grâce à une perspective diachronique : les rituels et les principes andins rendent compte de son histoire. Elle est étudiée au présent à travers les stratagèmes de l'économie monétaire. Leur avenir apparaît à l'horizon d'une réforme agraire analysée à la fois dans la perspective d'une politique nationale et dans son impact sur la vie indigène.
Emerging Sign Languages of the Americas
This volume is the first to bring together researchers studying a range of different types of emerging sign languages in the Americas, and their relationship to the gestures produced in the surrounding communities of hearing individuals. Contents Acknowledgements Olivier Le Guen, Marie Coppola and Josefina Safar Introduction: How Emerging Sign Languages in the Americas contributes to the study of linguistics and (emerging) sign languages Part I: Emerging sign languages of the Americas. Descriptions and analysis John Haviland Signs, interaction, coordination, and gaze: interactive foundations of “Z”—an emerging (sign) language from Chiapas, Mexico Laura Horton Representational strategie...
La Passion selon Séville
A Séville, de grands rituels mobilisant l'ensemble du corps social se succèdent tout au long de l'année pour célébrer les mythes du christianisme : semaine sainte, ouverture de la saison des corridas, feria, pèlerinage de Rocío et Corpus Christi. Conférant un caractère flamboyant et exotique à un catholicisme populaire, ces célébrations exercent sur quiconque y porte son regard une forme de fascination. Du meurtre de Notre Père Jésus lors de la semaine sainte à la pulsion retrouvée et maîtrisée dans la corrida de resurección, à la feria qui célèbre l'émergence de la famille, au rapt de la Vierge en Mère à laquelle le pèlerin doit finalement renoncer, et enfin, à la...
