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Ritual Encounters
This book examines ritual practices and public festivals in the Otavalo and Cotacachi areas of northern Andean Ecuador's Imbabura province. Otavaleños are a unique group in that they maintain their traditional identity but also cultivate a cosmopolitanism through frequent international travel. Ritual Encountersexplores the moral, mythic, and modern crossroads at which Otavaleños stand, and how, at this junction, they come to define themselves as millennial people. Michelle Wibbelsman shows that Otavaleños are deeply engaged in transnational mobility and in the cultural transformations that have resulted from Otavalan participation in global markets, international consumer trends, and tech...
The People and the King
In The People and the King, John Leddy Phelan reexamines a well-known but long misunderstood event in eighteenth-century Colombia. When the Spanish colonial bureaucratic system of conciliation broke down, indigenous groups resorted to armed revolt to achieve their political ends. As Phelan demonstrates in these pages, the crisis of 1781 represented a constitutional clash between imperial centralization and colonial decentralization. Phelan argues that the Comunero revolution was not, as it has often been portrayed, a precursor of political independence, nor was it a frustrated social upheaval. The Comunero leaders and their followers did not advocate any basic reordering of society, Phelan concludes, but rather made an appeal for revolutionary reform within a traditionalist framework.
Thauma
Thauma es como los griegos llamaban a la maravilla y a lo que les provocaba una sensación de admiración. Un estímulo imprescindible para descubrir e investigar que han experimentado muchos jóvenes investigadores que desde 2006 han participado en los Talleres Doctorales que la prof. Dra. Dirce Marzoli, desde el Instituto Arqueológico Alemán y en cooperación con La Casa de Velázquez, ha organizado en Madrid. En este libro misceláneo hemos querido celebrar su jubilación como directora del Instituto Arqueológico Alemán de Madrid con 29 breves artículos que cubren grosso modo sus ámbitos de interés.
El Solitario
Mediante una labor de arqueología histórica, se reconstruye de una manera sorprendente la biografía del conde de Cuchicute, personaje de la noble historia colombiana, quien fue empresario, latifundista, y lleno de historias familiares, que lindan con la ficción.
Ritual and Power in Stone
The ancient Mesoamerican city of Izapa in Chiapas, Mexico, is renowned for its extensive collection of elaborate stone stelae and altars, which were carved during the Late Preclassic period (300 BC-AD 250). Many of these monuments depict kings garbed in the costume and persona of a bird, a well-known avian deity who had great significance for the Maya and other cultures in adjacent regions. This Izapan style of carving and kingly representation appears at numerous sites across the Pacific slope and piedmont of Mexico and Guatemala, making it possible to trace political and economic corridors of communication during the Late Preclassic period. In this book, Julia Guernsey offers a masterful a...
Teaching Ritual
Many teachers share an interest in bringing a better appreciation of ritual into their religious studies classes, but are uncertain how to do it. Religious studies faculty know how to teach texts, but they often have difficulty teaching something for which the meaning lies in the doing. How do you teach such "doing"? How much need be done? How does the teacher talk about the religiosity that exists in personalized relationships, not textual descriptions or prescriptions?These practical issues also give rise to theoretical questions. Giving more attention to ritual effectively suggests a reinterpretation of religion itself-an understanding less focused on what people have thought and written,...
Revolution and Ritual
Published by the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College in association with Getty Publications This richly illustrated exhibition catalogue features photographs by three Mexican women, each representing a different generation, who have explored and stretched notions of Mexican identity in works that range from the documentary to the poetic. Revolution and Ritual looks first at the images of Sara Castrejón (1888–1962), the woman photographer who most thoroughly captured the Mexican Revolution. The work of photographic luminary Graciela Iturbide (born 1942) sheds light on Mexico’s indigenous cultures. Finally, the self-portraits of Tatiana Parcero (born 1967) splice images of her body with cosmological maps and Aztec codices, echoing Mexico’s layered and contested history. By bringing their work into conversation, Revolution and Ritual invites readers to consider how Mexican photography has been transformed over the past century.
La Magia Wicca. Historia, ritos, ceremonias
La Wicca ha bebido de las fuentes de la sabiduría druídica con el fin de recuperar ideas, tradiciones y elementos del folclore, y reelaborarlos siguiendo unas creencias según las cuales cada individuo puede profundizar en su relación con lo sagrado. A través de este libro podrá descubrir una religión que tiene sus raíces en épocas muy lejanas. Gracias a esta guía conocerá una tradición poco conocida todavía, que, además le sorprenderá por su profunda capacidad de análisis e investigación, en una continua búsqueda que lleva a la mejora de las propias capacidades naturales. Atendiendo a las antiguas formas de magia popular y adivinación presentes en la historia del pueblo escocés, la magia Wicca ha profundizado en el vínculo entre el hombre y la aturaleza, entendida como fuerza creadora y fuente de todas las energías, a la cual se le siguen tributando cultos y rituales. Esta obra le permitirá emprender un largo camino hacia un mundo distinto, a veces temido, aunque fascinante y lleno de misterio.
Evangelización y configuración de la cristiandad ecuatoriana
La presente publicación no es una clásica historia de la Iglesia ecuatoriana, aunque en la formación de la "cristiandad colonial" se tienen en cuenta las normas emanadas del poder colonial: Audiencia, concilios diocesanos, obispos, regulaciones en la aplicación del patronato real, etc. No se puede olvidar que dentro del proceso de colonización y evangelización han jugado un papel los "doctrineros" o curas de indios y los misioneros entre los pueblos de las forestas tropicales. Ellos coadyuvaron en la promoción de una nueva fe basada en el Evangelio, de nuevas concepciones éticas y morales, de complejos simbólicos culturales y de novedosos sistemas organizacionales como las cofradía...
