Ritual and Remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations   vii Preface   ix 1 The Salasaca Runa   1 part i: Collective Rituals and Memory 2 The Catechist and the Quishuar Tree: Religious Transculturation in the Andean Contact Zone   25 3 Textual Strategies and Ritual Control in Early Twentieth-Century Salasaca   40 4 Prayer and Placemaking in the Andes: Staffholders and Cultural Memory   54 5 Life Lessons at a Time of Death   79 part ii: Individual Acts and Personal Narratives 6 Tales of Amazonia: Personal Narratives of Healing by Yumbos   107 7 Shamanism   117 8 Narrating the Sacred Landscape: Religious Ethnographies of the Particular   141 Notes   165 References Cited   169 Index   183 ...