Herranza "marrying"
- Title:
- Herranza "marrying"
- Collection:
- Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
- Set:
- Family Herranza ritual series
Gender roles series - Date:
- 1967
- Country:
- Peru
- ID Number:
- ISB_00114
- File Name:
- ISB_00114.jpg
- Culture:
- Quechua
- Subject:
- Herranza (Ritual)
Puna
Rites & ceremonies - Image View Description:
- View of Herranza "marrying"
- Description:
- A young cow and bull are 'married' and tied in ventral to ventral position imitating human coitus to ensure fertility. The imitation of human coitus is an expression of reciprocity between human and animal fertility.
- Bibliography:
- Isbell, Billie Jean. To Defend Ourselves: Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village. Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/2135 Chapter 6
Isbell, Billie Jean. "De inmaduro a duro: lo simbólico femenino y los esquemas andinos de género." Chap. 8 of Más allá del silencio: las fronteras de género en los Andes, D. Y. Arnold, compiladora. La Paz: Biblioteca Andina, 1997: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/2474
To Defend Ourselves, Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village, by Billie Jean Isbell. Waveland Press, 1985, chapter 6, section 4 (p. 151-163): http://hdl.handle.net/1813/2135
Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection, Images from the Andes: Collection Highlights: Rituals: http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/collection/Isbell/rituals
Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection, Images from the Andes: Collection Highlights: Gender: http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/collection/Isbell/gender - Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Series:
- Gender roles series : 23
Family Herranza ritual series : 11 - Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- This digital collection and its contents are owned and operated by the Cornell University Library. Digital reproductions are provided for private study, scholarship, and research use only and may not be downloaded for use in electronic or print publications (including websites), exhibitions or broadcasts, without permission.