Mesas & cosmologies in the central Andes /

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Bibliographic Details
Meeting name:	Latin American Symposium (12th : 2004 : San Diego Museum of Man)
Imprint:	[San Diego : San Diego Museum of Man], 2006.
Description:	xi, 143 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	San Diego Museum papers ; 44
Subject:	Indians of South America -- Andes region -- Rites and ceremonies -- Congresses. Indians of South America -- Peru -- Rites and ceremonies -- Congresses. Shamanism -- Andes region -- Congresses. Shamanism -- Peru -- Congresses. Cosmology -- Congresses. Indian cosmology. Indians of South America -- Religion. Indians of South America -- Rites and ceremonies. Shamanism. Andes Region. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6438562

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Varying Form of Title:	Mesas and cosmologies in the central Andes
Other authors / contributors:	Sharon, Douglas.
ISBN:	0937808822 9780937808825
Notes:	" ... papers presented at the 12th Latin American Symposium, San Diego Museum of Man, March 6, 2004"--P. vi. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	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

Table of Contents:

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

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