Peregrinaciones y procesiones rituales en los Andes

Pilgrimages and ritual processions in the Andes. In the Andes, pilgrimages have a long history: several ethnohistorical documents confirm that this kind of ritual existed long before the Conquest. For their part, certain present-day pilgrimages, beyond the veneration of the Virgin or of a Christ, di...

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Main Author: María Rostworowski
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Language:English
Published: Société des américanistes 2003-06-01
Series:Journal de la Société des Américanistes
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/1504
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description Pilgrimages and ritual processions in the Andes. In the Andes, pilgrimages have a long history: several ethnohistorical documents confirm that this kind of ritual existed long before the Conquest. For their part, certain present-day pilgrimages, beyond the veneration of the Virgin or of a Christ, display shared and disturbing coincidences with ancient rituals. In a different context, prehispanic sacrificial rites, known as capacocha, involved considerable displacements of the participants. They were of two kinds: the Inca ones, which culminated in the sacrifice of young and handsome children; the coastal ones, which required the use of human or animal blood.
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Peregrinaciones y procesiones rituales en los Andes
Journal de la Société des Américanistes
pilgrimages
prehispanic rites
modern rites
rituals
capacocha
title Peregrinaciones y procesiones rituales en los Andes
title_full Peregrinaciones y procesiones rituales en los Andes
title_fullStr Peregrinaciones y procesiones rituales en los Andes
title_full_unstemmed Peregrinaciones y procesiones rituales en los Andes
title_short Peregrinaciones y procesiones rituales en los Andes
title_sort peregrinaciones y procesiones rituales en los andes
topic pilgrimages
prehispanic rites
modern rites
rituals
capacocha
url https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/1504
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