Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Corpus Christi celebrants
- Title:
- Corpus Christi celebrants
- Collection:
- Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
- Set:
- Corpus Christi ritual series
- Date:
- 1967
- Location:
- Chuschi (Peru)
- ID Number:
- ISB_00249
- File Name:
- ISB_00249.jpg
- Culture:
- Quechua
- Subject:
- Men
Horseback riding
Children
Rites & ceremonies
Festivals
Corpus Christi Festival
Plazas
- Image View Description:
- View of Corpus Christi celebrants
- Description:
- A father holds his son on horseback. The child is one of the sponsors of the Corpus Christi celebration when the savage 'sallqaruna' descend from the puna and ritually attack the community.
- Bibliography:
- Isbell, Billie Jean. To Defend Ourselves: Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village. Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/2135 Chapter 9
To Defend Ourselves, Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village, by Billie Jean Isbell. Waveland Press, 1985, chapter 2, section 8 (p. 57-59)
chapter 9, section 2 (p. 201)
chapter 10, section 2 (p. 229): 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:
- Corpus Christi 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.
