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Ritual Encounters: Otavalan Modern and Mythic Community

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Description for Ritual Encounters: Otavalan Modern and Mythic Community Paperback. The mythic roots and modern future of Ecuadorian indigenous communities in the twenty-first century Series: Interpretations of Culture in the New Millenium. Num Pages: 232 pages, 18 photographs; 7 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; HRLF; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.

This book examines ritual practices and public festivals in the Otavalo and Cotacachi areas of northern Andean Ecuador's Imbabura province. Otavaleños are a unique group in that they maintain their traditional identity but also cultivate a cosmopolitanism through frequent international travel. Ritual Encountersexplores the moral, mythic, and modern crossroads at which Otavaleños stand, and how, at this junction, they come to define themselves as millennial people. 

Michelle Wibbelsman shows that Otavaleños are deeply engaged in transnational mobility and in the cultural transformations that have resulted from Otavalan participation in global markets, international consumer trends, and technological developments. Rituals have persisted among this ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
Interpretations of Culture in the New Millenium
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252076039
SKU
V9780252076039
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About Michelle Wibbelsman
Michelle Wibbelsman is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University.

Reviews for Ritual Encounters: Otavalan Modern and Mythic Community
"An intelligent and welcome book."
Anthropology Review Database "An important addition to the literature on Andean ethnography and the anthropology of ritual."
Latin American Music Review "Ritual Encounters offers a richly textured reading of core Otavalan ritual performances and the cosmological discourse that sustains them."
Journal of Folklore Research "When I first witnessed the powerful images, music, and hypnotic rhythms of the Otavalos' Inti ... Read more

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