Entrance to cave
- Title:
- Entrance to cave
- Collection:
- Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
- Date:
- 1970
- Location:
- Lima (Peru)
7 de Octubre (Lima, Peru) - ID Number:
- ISB_00435
- File Name:
- ISB_00435.jpg
- Culture:
- Quechua
- Subject:
- Urban rituals
Santa Rosa de Lima Festival
City & town life
Internal migration
Rites & ceremonies
Squatter settlements - Image View Description:
- View of Entrance to cave
- Description:
- The migrants living in 7 de Octubre from Chuschi have constructed a clubhouse, the Progressive Club of Santa Rosa, with the back wall being the entrance to a cave that played a major role in their defense of the territory during the initial invasion. This has become their major ritual space.
- 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
- 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.