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Subject(s)

• Indigenous peoples of South America—Andes Region—Rites and ceremonies—Congresses [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples of South America—Peru—Rites and ceremonies—Congresses [Browse]
• Shamanism—Andes Region—Congresses [Browse]
• Shamanism—Peru—Congresses [Browse]
• Cosmology—Congresses [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Related name

• Sharon, Douglas [Browse]

Series

San Diego Museum papers ; 44 [More in this series]

Summary note

Mesas & cosmologies in the central Andes offers a focused overview of the subject matter, dealing with both archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence for pre-Hispanic shamanism in the Andes. It provides insight into cosmological concepts underlying the rites and power objects of contemporary shamans, including ethnological interpretation of the ritual paraphernalia and practices of contemporary shamans inhabiting parts of the Andes where pre-Columbian cultural legacies are still alive. In these regions, shamanism enjoys a widespread popular appeal because it is effective in meeting a basic human need to attribute meaning to existence

Notes

" ... papers presented at the 12th Latin American Symposium, San Diego Museum of Man, March 6, 2004"--P. vi.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Prologue / Douglas Sharon
• Shamanism, mesas, and cosmologies in the central Andes / Douglas Sharon
• Andean cosmology and cosmography in the North Peruvian shamanic mesa / Mario Polia
• Spellbound : love and magic on the north coast of Perú / Luis Millones and Laura León-Llerena
• Curanderismo at La Pescadera-Salas / Donald Skillman
• Constructing the mesas : from extirpation to adoration / Donald Joralemon
• The emergence of the modern mesa : African influence and syncretisms revisited / Bonnie Glass-Coffin
• Chavín de Huánta r: evidence for an evolved shamanism / John W. Rick
• The power of the Enqaychu and the cosmos of Andean pastoralists / Inge Bolin
• Mountain-body metaphor of Kallawaya Andeans expressed in mesas / Joseph W. Bastien
• Social organization as ritual : the Chipaya Andeans of the Bolivian altiplano / Henry Migala.

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Other title(s)

Mesas and cosmologies in the central Andes

ISBN

• 0937808822
• 9780937808825

LCCN

2007299906

OCLC

154946310

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