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Andean Cosmologies Through Time: Persistence and Emergence

Andean Cosmologies Through Time: Persistence and Emergence

Dover, Robert V. H.
Seibold, Katharine E.
McDowell, John Holmes

Hardcover

Series: Caribbean and Latin American Studies

Religion General Astronomy & SpaceSouth American History

ISBN10: 0253318157
ISBN13: 9780253318152
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Published: Jan 1 1992
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.31
Height: 1.04 Width: 6.37 Depth: 9.33
Language: English

Concerned with Andean cosmology both as the manifestation of a system of belief and as a way of thinking or worldview that orders the social environment, this volume advances an explanation of why Andean indigenous communities are still recognizably Andean after a half-millennium of forced exposure to Western systems of thought and belief. Dealing with cultural authenticity in an Andean context, the essays describe a process facilitated by a cosmology which readily integrates the accoutrements of non-Andean community. At issue is not so much what is authentic but, rather, how it is perceived to be authentic and how it is so maintained. The nine authors explore a model in which a consistent and persistent cosmological discourse leads, not to an emergent social order, but to a social order which continually emerges as a peculiarly Andean phenomenon.

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