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Entrance to cave

Title:
Entrance to cave
Collection:
Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
Date:
1970
Site:
Lima (Peru)
7 de Octubre (Lima, Peru)
Identifier:
ISB_00435
Culture:
Quechua
Subject:
Urban rituals
Santa Rosa de Lima Festival
City & town life
Internal migration
Rites & ceremonies
Squatter settlements
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.

About the collection

This collection of materials is derived from Professor Billie Jean Isbell's 40 years of research in the Andes, primarily in the southern Andean department of Ayacucho and specifically in the village of Chuschi, Peru, and the surrounding region of the River Pampas Valley. Included in this collection are approximately 1500 photographs, thirteen songs, Professor Isbell's ethnography, To Defend Ourselves: Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village, as well as selected publications.