Rimarishpa Kausanchik: Dialogical Encounters. Festive Ritual Practices and the Making of the Otavalan Moral and Mythic Community
Wibbelsman, Michelle C.
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Description
Title
Rimarishpa Kausanchik: Dialogical Encounters. Festive Ritual Practices and the Making of the Otavalan Moral and Mythic Community
Author(s)
Wibbelsman, Michelle C.
Issue Date
2004
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Whitten, Norman E., Jr.
Department of Study
Anthropology
Discipline
Anthropology
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
History, Latin American
Language
eng
Abstract
Third, I illustrate through various ethnographic examples the multivocality, complexity, and versatility of ritual. Otavalan festive ritual practices emphasize collective participation, simultaneity of action and discourse, collaborative and contested meaning making, transformation, and improvisation that, together, produce an extraordinary generative cultural tension. Beyond embodying collective expression, Otavalan ritual practices constitute enduring social institutions. As cultural and symbolic systems, Otavalan festival performances enable developing and continuing expression that challenges linear historical narratives of representation and the processes behind their production.
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