Andean Cosmologies through Time: Persistence and Emergence

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

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253318152
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	06/22/1992
Series:	Caribbean and Latin American Studies Series
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.04(d)
Age Range:	18 Years