Dario Carhuapoma's Herranza
- Title:
- Dario Carhuapoma's Herranza
- Collection:
- Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
- Set:
- Family Herranza ritual series
Gender roles series - Date:
- 1967
- Location:
- Chuschi (Peru)
- ID Number:
- ISB_00127
- File Name:
- ISB_00127.jpg
- Culture:
- Quechua
- Subject:
- Herranza (Ritual)
Rites & ceremonies
Ceremonial objects - Image View Description:
- View of Dario Carhuapoma's Herranza
- Description:
- Ritual table for the Herranza, the fertility ritual for cattle. An adult woman who has given birth is essential in several parts of the ritual, including preparing the table. Here Dario's mother has prepared the ritual table. The bundle in the basket contains llampu, several elements of powder prepared by Dario. It is also spread in three lines on the poncho and is in the small shell. Llampu is mixed in the trago and chicha and drunk.
- 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 : 21
Family Herranza ritual series : 03 - Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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