Dancing in plaza, Cancha Cancha fiesta
- Title:
- Dancing in plaza, Cancha Cancha fiesta
- Collection:
- Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
- Set:
- Gender roles series
Yapuy ritual series - Date:
- 1969
- Country:
- Peru
- ID Number:
- ISB_00193
- File Name:
- ISB_00193.jpg
- Culture:
- Quechua
- Subject:
- Yapuy (Ritual)
Gender
Festivals
Rites & ceremonies
Ceremonial dancers
Musicians
Plazas - Image View Description:
- View of Dancing in plaza, Cancha Cancha fiesta
- Description:
- The festival culminates with dancing in the plaza accompanied by the cacophony of competing bands. Numerous bands representing the various communities play different tunes as participants dance in the central plaza after the planting ceremony.
- 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 : 17
Yapuy ritual series : 25 - 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.