Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Navidad
- Title:
- Navidad
- Collection:
- Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
- Set:
- Navidad ritual series
- Date:
- 1975
- Location:
- Quispillaccta (Peru)
Quispillacta (Peru)
Quispillaqta (Peru)
- ID Number:
- ISB_00334
- File Name:
- ISB_00334.jpg
- Culture:
- Quechua
- Subject:
- Navidad (Ritual)
Gender
Festivals
Rites & ceremonies
Ceremonial dancers
- Image View Description:
- View of Navidad
- Description:
- 'Machu' llama is being pursued by women dancers/herders accompanied by the harpist. The machu has bells attached to his feet. When the women surround him, they say 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
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Series:
- Navidad ritual series : 04
- 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.
