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"Warmi" face is blackened

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Title:
"Warmi" face is blackened
Collection:
Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
Set:
Gender roles series
Yapuy ritual series
Date:
1969
Country:
Peru
ID Number:
ISB_00206
File Name:
ISB_00206.jpg
Culture:
Quechua
Subject:
Yapuy (Ritual)
Gender
Rites & ceremonies
Festivals
Image View Description:
View of "Warmi" face is blackened
Description:
The man playing the ritual role of the "Warmi", the woman who plants the plaza, has his face blackened by another man. The blackening indicates he is other than his usual identity.
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 : 13
Yapuy ritual series : 17
Format:
Image
Rights:
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