Yapuy, Cancha Cancha
- Title:
- Yapuy, Cancha Cancha
- Collection:
- Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
- Set:
- Yapuy ritual series
- Date:
- 1969
- Country:
- Peru
- ID Number:
- ISB_00186
- File Name:
- ISB_00186.jpg
- Culture:
- Quechua
- Subject:
- Yapuy (Ritual)
Gender
Festivals
Rites & ceremonies - Image View Description:
- View of Yapuy, Cancha Cancha
- Description:
- After the planting of the plaza, a ritual battle takes place with confrontations between members of the different communities in attendance. Here a wife is pulling her husband away from a man from another village who has challenged him. They have thrown machca, ground toasted corn, in each other's face.
- Bibliography:
- 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 9, section 3: 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 : 16
Yapuy ritual series : 24 - 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.