Sayings of the Ancestors (eBook)

The Spiritual Life of the Sibundoy Indians

John Holmes McDowell (Autor)

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2021
224 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
9780813188089 (ISBN)

Infos

The Sibundoy valley of southwestern Colombia is the home of a unique Indian cultureone that blends Incan elements with those of the aboriginal natives. Moreover, Sibundoy bridges two domains, the Andean highlands and the Amazonian basin, and inter-mixed with all of these elements are European influences, particularly folk and orthodox Catholicism. From this cultural enclave, John McDowell presents here a body of oral material collected from the Santiago Ingano community.This corpus of material is made up of some 200 "e;sayings of the ancestors,"e; proverb-like statements, many concerned with dreams and the forecasting of future events. From an analysis of these sayings emerges a cosmological view of the Sibundoy Indians, a glimpse of their spiritual world. It is a world where spirits constantly impinge on the activities of everyday life. It is a world where the sayings can both warn of spiritual sickness and offer the way to spiritual health. For the Sibundoy the sayings go back to the first people, the "e;ancestors,"e; who established for all time the models for a proper life. The study of the sayings is rounded out with references to the parallel fields of mythology and folk medicine as these contribute to a clearer understanding of their roles and functions in Sibundoy life.Sayings of the Ancestors provides a fascinating body of original folkloric and ethnographic material from a unique cultural locus. It is also an engrossing demonstration that what seems a miscellaneous group of small beliefs can be seen as the components of a larger world-order. The book and its interpretive findings will be a valuable resource for folklorists, anthropologists, and many Latin Americanists.

Autor

John Holmes McDowell is associate professor of folklore at Indiana University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.11.2021
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Catholocism • Colombia • Francisco Tanidio Jansasoy • Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff • Inganos • Mestizos • Minga • Native American Religion • Native American Spirituality • native doctors • sayings of the ancestors • Sibundoy Indians • Sibundoy mythic narrative • Sibundoy natives • Snakes • Spirits • Tapiacunamanda • thunder deity • Wangetsmuna
• ISBN-13: 9780813188089 / 9780813188089