Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Dancing around tree, 7 de Octubre
- Title:
- Dancing around tree, 7 de Octubre
- Collection:
- Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
- Date:
- 1970
- Location:
- Lima (Peru)
7 de Octubre (Lima, Peru)
- ID Number:
- ISB_00422
- File Name:
- ISB_00422.jpg
- Culture:
- Quechua
- Subject:
- Corte Monte (Ritual)
Urban rituals
City & town life
Internal migration
Rites & ceremonies
Festivals
Squatter settlements
- Image View Description:
- View of Dancing around tree, 7 de Octubre
- Description:
- Sponsors of ritual and potential future sponsors dance around the tree that has been transported to the invasion settlement and planted in the roadway. The tree is cut by dancers and the last cut determines the next year's sponsors.
- 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 8
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- 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.
