The Sibundoy Valley of Colombia is a South American microcosm, an indigenous cradle and crossroads, that has so far eluded thorough ethnographic description. In the following pages I offer an account of the spiritual life of its native peoples, a life marked by the unflagging quest for spiritual indemnity. The story is told primarily in the words of the Sibundoy peoples themselves, in their "sayings of the ancestors," in their glosses on the sayings, and in a parallel corpus of mythic narrative that provides the conceptual scaffolding for this spiritual edifice
Drawing on the long and arduous history between the Indigenous people of the United States and the C...
There has been much speculation that verbal instrurrients of cosmology are less important in the An...
The Chipaya people live in the Bolivian Altiplano. Their ecological, economic, and social isolation ...
The Sibundoy valley of southwestern Colombia is the home of a unique Indian culture—one that blends ...
In this essay I hope to establish the existence of an implicit moral philosophy in the mythic narra...
In this paper I will study the story2 that the Bolivian highland Chipayas tell about their origin an...
This thesis is an ethnographic account of the different ritual domains of interaction between the O...
'Sumak' kawsay, a vision of good living originating in the thought of indigenous intellectuals, has ...
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Magical healings, ghostly encounters, and alternate realities have been a part of American society s...
Winner of the Libraries' Award for Undergraduate Research Excellence: (2022). 55 pages.Anthropologic...
The Kamsa Indians, resident in Colombia's Sibundoy Valley near the headwaters of the Putumayo River,...
The Algonquian-speaking peoples create, used, and made images which are subdivided into three groups...
This article presents the enigma of how a small tribe might be able to retain cultural identity in t...
A cross-cultural approach to reading and writing about indigenous literature contributes to the ongo...
Drawing on the long and arduous history between the Indigenous people of the United States and the C...
There has been much speculation that verbal instrurrients of cosmology are less important in the An...
The Chipaya people live in the Bolivian Altiplano. Their ecological, economic, and social isolation ...
The Sibundoy valley of southwestern Colombia is the home of a unique Indian culture—one that blends ...
In this essay I hope to establish the existence of an implicit moral philosophy in the mythic narra...
In this paper I will study the story2 that the Bolivian highland Chipayas tell about their origin an...
This thesis is an ethnographic account of the different ritual domains of interaction between the O...
'Sumak' kawsay, a vision of good living originating in the thought of indigenous intellectuals, has ...
This study embarked on the question: why would I allow a story full of colonial elements to become m...
Magical healings, ghostly encounters, and alternate realities have been a part of American society s...
Winner of the Libraries' Award for Undergraduate Research Excellence: (2022). 55 pages.Anthropologic...
The Kamsa Indians, resident in Colombia's Sibundoy Valley near the headwaters of the Putumayo River,...
The Algonquian-speaking peoples create, used, and made images which are subdivided into three groups...
This article presents the enigma of how a small tribe might be able to retain cultural identity in t...
A cross-cultural approach to reading and writing about indigenous literature contributes to the ongo...
Drawing on the long and arduous history between the Indigenous people of the United States and the C...
There has been much speculation that verbal instrurrients of cosmology are less important in the An...
The Chipaya people live in the Bolivian Altiplano. Their ecological, economic, and social isolation ...