Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Man dressed as a woman
- Title:
- Man dressed as a woman
- Collection:
- Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
- Set:
- Yapuy ritual series
- Date:
- 1969
- Country:
- Peru
- ID Number:
- ISB_00188
- File Name:
- ISB_00188.jpg
- Culture:
- Quechua
- Subject:
- Yapuy (Ritual)
Gender
Festivals
Rites & ceremonies
Plazas
- Image View Description:
- View of Man dressed as a woman
- Description:
- Frontal view of the man who is dressed as a woman and plants the plaza with his 'babies', the spent corn from the bottom of brewing pots. He is simply called warmi, woman.
- Bibliography:
- 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
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Series:
- Yapuy ritual series : 18
- 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.
