Cornell University Library Digital Collections
7 de Octubre, Mayordomos, Santa Rosa
- Title:
- 7 de Octubre, Mayordomos, Santa Rosa
- Collection:
- Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
- Date:
- 1970
- Location:
- Lima (Peru)
7 de Octubre (Lima, Peru)
- ID Number:
- ISB_00425
- File Name:
- ISB_00425.jpg
- Culture:
- Quechua
- Subject:
- Urban Rituals
Santa Rosa de Lima Festival
City & town life
Internal migration
Rites & ceremonies
Festivals
Squatter settlements
- Image View Description:
- View of 7 de Octubre, Mayordomos, Santa Rosa
- Description:
- The mayordomos, sponsors, of the Santa Rosa festival in front of her altar in the Chuschino club. The small effigy of the saint shown here returns to Chuschi once a year on the bus with migrants to "visit her mother, Santa Rosa," housed in the church in Chuschi.
- 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.
