Sayings of the Ancestors : The Spiritual Life of the Sibundoy Indians /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McDowell, John Holmes, 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 1989.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ingano Indians > Religion.
Camsa Indians > Religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Spirituality > Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
Colombia > Sibundoy Valley Region.
Sibundoy Valley Region (Colombia) > Religious life and customs.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (224 pages).
ISBN:9780813163956

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