Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Cancha Cancha fiesta
- Title:
- Cancha Cancha fiesta
- Collection:
- Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
- Set:
- Gender roles series
- Date:
- 1969
- Country:
- Peru
- ID Number:
- ISB_00184
- File Name:
- ISB_00184.jpg
- Culture:
- Quechua
- Subject:
- Yapuy (Ritual)
Rites & ceremonies
Festivals
- Image View Description:
- View of Cancha Cancha fiesta
- Description:
- Part of the Yapuy planting ritual held in Cancha Cancha. The "Warmi," a man who dresses as a woman, is presented with face covered, under a canopy of leaves.
- Bibliography:
- Isbell, Billie Jean. "De inmaduro a duro: lo simbólico femenino y los esquemas andinos de género." Chap. 8 of Más allá del silencio: las fronteras de género en los Andes, D. Y. Arnold, compiladora. La Paz: Biblioteca Andina, 1997: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/2474
To Defend Ourselves, Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village, by Billie Jean Isbell. Waveland Press, 1985, chapter 9, section 3: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/2135
Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection, Images from the Andes: Collection Highlights: Rituals: http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/collection/Isbell/rituals
Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection, Images from the Andes: Collection Highlights: Gender: http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/collection/Isbell/gender
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Series:
- Gender roles series : 14
Yapuy ritual series : 21
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- This digital collection and its contents are owned and operated by the Cornell University Library. Digital reproductions are provided for private study, scholarship, and research use only and may not be downloaded for use in electronic or print publications (including websites), exhibitions or broadcasts, without permission.
