Ritos y ceremonias andinas en torno a la vida y la muerte en el noroeste Argentino /

Ritos y ceremonias andinas en torno a la vida y la muerte en el noroeste Argentino /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Vargas, Amalia, author.
Imprint:	Buenos Aires : Editorial Biblos, [2020] ©2020
Description:	261 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Language:	Spanish
Subject:	Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Argentina. Indians of South America -- Funeral customs and rites -- Argentina. Funeral rites and ceremonies. Indians of South America -- Funeral customs and rites. Argentina.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12885500

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ISBN:	9789876919005 9876919008
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-261).
Summary:	With remarkable ethnographic precision and fidelity to ancestral mandates, Amalia Vargas describes and analyzes the Andean mortuary rituals in northwestern Argentina that are part of her own culture. Vargas offers not only an approach to beliefs about death, but also, and fundamentally, to the meaning that a community gives to life. This sense is woven from the celebration of the cult that people give to their ancestors who preceded them, the continuity of tradition and life, which contains a particular vision of the world. Such a particularity gives this and other Andean communities a universal breath that is associated with a shared concern for human beings of all times and places.

Table of Contents:

El significado de la muerte
La muerte y los pasos rituales
El luto y el duelo
Río de purificación
Ritos de despedida de las almas
El cuerpo, el altar y su valor simbólico
Construcción de imágenes del muerto
En ritualidad constante
El compadrazgo del Día de los Difuntos.