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Andean Cosmologies through Time: Persistence and Emergence (Caribbean and Latin American Studies) - Hardcover

 
9780253318152: Andean Cosmologies through Time: Persistence and Emergence (Caribbean and Latin American Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0253318157 ISBN 13: 9780253318152
Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1992

Synopsis

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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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Publication date
1992
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0253318157
ISBN 13 
9780253318152
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
288
Editor
Dover Robert V.H., Seibold Katharine E., McDowell John Holmes