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At the Mountains' Altar - Anthropology of Religion in an Andean Community (Paperback)
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At the Mountains' Altar - Anthropology of Religion in an Andean Community (Paperback)
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In high-Andean Peru, Rapaz village maintains a temple to mountain
beings who command water and weather. By examining the ritual
practices and belief systems of an Andean community, this book
provides students with rich understandings of unfamiliar religious
experiences and delivers theories of religion from the realm of
abstraction. From core field encounters, each chapter guides
readers outward in a different theoretical direction, successively
exploring the main paths in the anthropology of religion. As well
as addressing classical approaches in the anthropology of religion
to rural modernity, Salomon engages with newer currents such as
cognitive-evolution models, power-oriented critiques, the
ontological reworking of relativism, and the "new materialism" in
the context of a deep-rooted Andean ethos. He reflects on central
questions such as: Why does sacred ritualism seem almost universal?
Is it seated in social power, human psychology, symbolic meanings,
or cultural logics? Are varied theories compatible? Is "religion"
still a tenable category in the post-colonial world? At the
Mountains' Altar is a valuable resource for students taking courses
on the anthropology of religion, Andean cultures, Latin American
ethnography, religious studies, and indigenous peoples of the
Americas.
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