Format:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
eHRAF World Cultures
Content:
The Otavalo Quichua collection documents focus upon a time span from 1940 to 2001, but include significant historical information extending to the late pre-Inca period (ca. AD 1250). Although the Otavalo may now be encountered in major urban areas worldwide, this collection concentrates on core area in Imbabura province, Ecuador (cantons of Otavalo and Cotacachi); In particular, the towns of Peguche, Ilumán and Cotacachi. Parsons is the classic ethnography, providing basic description of material culture, close observation of family life, participant observation in divination, a full chapter of folklore, and good descriptions of the annual round of religious festivals. Wibbelsman's doctoral dissertation focuses almost exclusively on the ritual/festival cycle, while considering its cosmological underpinnings and role in (re)constituting and revivifying and communities ever more engaged with, and living throughout, Ecuador and the world. Solomon details the politico-economic history behind a uniquely successful ethos and means of cultural survival and promotion
Note:
Culture Summary: Otavalo Quichua - Lynn A. Meisch - 2010 -- - Peguche, canton of Otavalo, province of Imbabura: a study of Andean Indians - Elsie Clews Parsons - 1945 -- - Weavers of Otavalo - Frank L. Salomon - 1981 -- - Rimarishpa Kausanchik: dialogical encounters: festive ritual practices and the making of the Otavalan moral and mythic community - Michelle C. Wibbelsman - 2004 [2007 copy]
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Quechua
