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Planting the plaza during Yapuy Ritual

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Title:
Planting the plaza during Yapuy Ritual
Collection:
Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
Set:
Gender roles series
Yapuy ritual series
Date:
1969
Country:
Peru
ID Number:
ISB_00288
File Name:
ISB_00288.jpg
Culture:
Quechua
Subject:
Yapuy (Ritual)
Gender
Rites & ceremonies
Plazas
Image View Description:
View of Planting the plaza during Yapuy Ritual
Description:
Male dressed as woman plants the plaza instead of a field. On his back he is carrying a symbolic "baby" that is actually fermented corn that he uses as his seed for planting. The fermented corn is from the chicha (corn beer) brewing pots.
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 : 15
Yapuy ritual series : 23
Format:
Image
Rights:
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