Navidad participants
- Title:
- Navidad participants
- Collection:
- Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
- Set:
- Gender roles series
Navidad ritual series - Date:
- 1975
- Location:
- Quispillaccta (Peru)
Quispillacta (Peru)
Quispillaqta (Peru) - ID Number:
- ISB_00225
- File Name:
- ISB_00225.jpg
- Culture:
- Quechua
- Subject:
- Navidad (Ritual)
Festivals
Rites & ceremonies
Ceremonial dancers - Image View Description:
- View of Navidad participants
- Description:
- Fertility ritual for camelids takes place during the December solstice or Navidad ritual. Oldest and youngest participants are dressed identically. Shows the poles they carry as they 'herd' the machu llama or alpaca dancer.
- 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 2: 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 : 18
Navidad ritual series : 02 - Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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