Andean cosmologies time persistence (3 Ergebnisse)

1992. South America, Native Americans. Indiana University Press. Very good - near fine bright red cloth and very good - near fine dust jacket 274p.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 288 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Concerned with Andean cosmology both as the manifestation of a system of belief and as a way of thinking or worldview that orders the social environment, this volume advances an explanation of why Andean indigenous communities are still recognizably Andean after a half-millennium of forced exposure to Western systems of thought and belief. Dealing with cultural authenticity in an Andean context, the essays describe a process facilitated by a cosmology which readily integrates the accoutrements of non-Andean community. At issue is not so much what is authentic but, rather, how it is perceived to be authentic and how it is so maintained. The nine authors explore a model in which a consistent and persistent cosmological discourse leads, not to an emergent social order, but to a social order which continually emerges as a peculiarly Andean phenomenon.…