Navidad animal fertility ritual
- Title:
- Navidad animal fertility ritual
- Collection:
- Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
- Set:
- Gender roles series
Navidad ritual series - Date:
- 1975
- Location:
- Chuschi (Peru)
- ID Number:
- ISB_00221
- File Name:
- ISB_00221.jpg
- Culture:
- Quechua
- Subject:
- Navidad (Ritual)
Festivals
Rites & ceremonies
Ceremonial dancers - Image View Description:
- View of Navidad animal fertility ritual
- Description:
- The symbolic llama or alpaca, a single male dancer, is pursued and captured by a vibrating, dancing group of women and girls who capture the male, symbolizing copulation. Once they have captured him in the U-shaped dance group, people exclaim that they have mated.
- 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 2: 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 : 20
Navidad ritual series : 10 - 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.