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Sayings of the ancestors : the spiritual life of the Sibundoy Indians /
The Sibundoy valley of southwestern Colombia is the home of a unique Indian culture -- one that blends Incan elements with those of the aboriginal natives. Moreover, Sibundoy bridges two domains, the Andean highlands and the Amazonian basin, and inter-mixed with all of these elements are European in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
©1989.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Sibundoy valley of southwestern Colombia is the home of a unique Indian culture -- one that blends Incan elements with those of the aboriginal natives. Moreover, Sibundoy bridges two domains, the Andean highlands and the Amazonian basin, and inter-mixed with all of these elements are European influences, particularly folk and orthodox Catholicism. From this cultural enclave, John McDowell presents here a body of oral material collected from the Santiago Ingano community. This corpus of material is made up of some 200 ""sayings of the ancestors, "" proverb-like statements, many concerned with |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (225 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813163956 0813163951 |