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Returning to Q'ero

Author : Steven Webster
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031049721
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Returning to Q'ero written by Steven Webster and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, social anthropologist Steven Webster provides an ethnohistory of sustainability among the indigenous Andean community of Hatun Q’ero since the 1960s. He first revisits his detailed ecological research among the remote Q’ero in the high Andes of Southern Peru in 1969–1970 and 1977. At that time, Q'ero was a community comprised of several hamlets in converging valleys based primarily on alpaca herding at about 4,300 meters, and composed of about 400 persons in about 80 families. He then relies on the few ethnographies by other anthropologists to document changes in Hatun Q'ero by 2020 , spanning 1980-90s when the nation was immersed in agrarian reform followed by virtual civil war between Maoist guerrillas, the government, and the highland peasantry. Through all of these ideological and political-economic developments the sustainability of Q'ero as an integral ecological and social community as well as a famously Incaic cultural tradition becomes a global as well as national issue. This book argues that while the commercial expansion of ceremonial and shamanist tourism can be seen as extractivist similar to industrial mining, the assertive form of independence characteristic of the Q'eros appears to remain sustainable in the face of both these extractive threats. While the Q'ero community is internally reinforced by their reciprocal relationship with the same non-human forces these forms of extraction seek to exploit, they are externally reinforced by the global as well as national rise of indigeneity movements. Ironically, given the moral force developed in some aspects of shamanist tourism, it can even be argued that it supports environmental sustainability against climate change, globally as well as in Q'ero. This book analyzes the increasing importance of indigeneity in the national politics of Peru as well as the other Andean nations in the last few decades, but it remains to set this form of identity politics in its wider “intersectional” context of social class and ethnic conflict in the Andes.

The Hold Life Has

Author : Catherine J. Allen
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588343596
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book The Hold Life Has written by Catherine J. Allen and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Catherine J. Allen's distinctive ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes brings their story into the present. She has added an extensive afterword based on her visits to Sonqo in 1995 and 2000 and has updated and revised parts of the original text. The book focuses on the very real problem of cultural continuity in a changing world, and Allen finds that the hold life has in 2002 is not the same as it was in 1985.

Hidden Threads of Peru

Author : Ann Pollard Rowe
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Hidden Threads of Peru written by Ann Pollard Rowe and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to present the beautiful shawls, ponchos, bags and other textile arts of the Q'ero people, exploring the daily life and rituals of their remote Andean community and providing a fascinating insight into a rarely glimpsed world.

Legends and Prophecies of the Quero Apache

Author : Maria Yracébûrû
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9781879181779
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Legends and Prophecies of the Quero Apache written by Maria Yracébûrû and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Native American tales passed down from generations reveal how sacred universal laws govern our relationship to the natural world, our interaction with nature, and our respect for each other.

Light of the Andes

Author : J. E. Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781617203749
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Light of the Andes written by J. E. Williams and published by . This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A work of hybrid ethnography and spiritual anthropology about the teachings of Ayni, the Q'ero way of knowledge and being. It is not a record of events and things. Rather, it forms a personal narrative, an allegory of seeking and discovery that documents the events that lead to the journey and high-altitude initiation on Ausangate with the traditional Q'ero shaman and wisdom keeper, Sebastian Pauccar Flores, in 2008."--Pref.

Living Shamanism

Author : Julie Dollman
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780997302
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Living Shamanism written by Julie Dollman and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De-mystify modern shamanism as we undertake an alchemical healing and transformational journey of sacred self-discovery. Julie Dollman shares her own experiences as she embarks on a difficult, challenging and wondrous journey into the world of shamanism, emerging with some amazing and simple tools, a sense of belonging and most importantly, a wondrous connection to the natural world that we all live in. Living Shamanism will appeal to those who are looking for an alternate way to tackle day-to-day issues they are experiencing and to those that are seriously considering a lifestyle change. ,

The Fourth Level

Author : Elizabeth B. Jenkins
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781491240908
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Fourth Level written by Elizabeth B. Jenkins and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the culmination of Elizabeth's twenty -five years of study, exploration and practice of the Inka Nature Wisdom Tradtion. A primer on how humans can increase their Nature Intelligence, this book translates the worldview of the Q'ero Indians of Peru, through Seven Energy Principles that reveal how we are each inherently connected to Nature. The book includes 7 authentic Inka practices or, "Nature Contemplations," that allow the reader to experience each one of the principles personally and directly. Companion audio tapes of these Nature Contemplations are also available.

Tambo

Author : Julia Meyerson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292788118
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Tambo written by Julia Meyerson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the best way to sharpen one's power's of observation is to be a stranger in a strange land. Julia Meyerson was one such stranger during a year in the village of 'Tambo, Peru, where her husband was conducting anthropological fieldwork. Though sometimes overwhelmed by the differences between Quechua and North American culture, she still sought eagerly to understand the lifeways of 'Tambo and to find her place in the village. Her vivid observations, recorded in this field journal, admirably follow Henry James's advice: "Try to be one of the people upon whom nothing is lost." With an artist's eye, Meyerson records the daily life of 'Tambo—the cycles of planting and harvest, the round of religious and cultural festivals, her tentative beginnings of friendship and understanding with the Tambinos. The journal charts her progress from tolerated outsider to accepted friend as she and her husband learn and earn, the roles of daughter and son in their adopted family. With its wealth of ethnographic detail, especially concerning the lives of Andean women, 'Tambo will have great value for students of Latin American anthropology. In addition, scholars preparing to do fieldwork anywhere will find it a realistic account of both the hardships and the rewards of such study.

Masters of the Living Energy

Author : Joan Parisi Wilcox
Publisher : Inner Traditions
ISBN 13 : 9781594770128
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Masters of the Living Energy written by Joan Parisi Wilcox and published by Inner Traditions. This book was released on 2004-07-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate glimpse into the world of ancient Peruvian spiritual practice and cosmology • Reveals the mysteries of the world of living energy (kawsay pacha) through intensive in-depth interviews with six Q’ero mystics • Explores the energetics, spirits, tools, and practices of Andean mysticism--the real story behind the fictionalized accounts in The Celestine Prophecy Known as the “keepers of the ancient knowledge,” the Q’ero Indians of Peru are the most respected mystics of the south-central Andes. In 1996 Joan Parisi Wilcox traveled to the Andes and was able to record the mysteries of kawsay pacha, the multidimensional world of living energy, through more than 40 hours of intensive interviews with six Q’ero paqos, masters of the ancient spiritual traditions of Peru. The Q’ero are known for having preserved the Inca spiritual tradition more purely than any other indigenous population in the Andes. The in-depth interviews presented in this book recount the direct words of these masters so readers can discover for themselves the mind and heart space of these people. Four new chapters of this revised edition focus on the work of the mesa, the Andean form of a spiritual medicine bundle, and its use as a conduit for the healing energies of nature. The mesa is called the “heart’s fire” because it represents the finest energy--the energy of compassion--that a paqo cultivates while walking the sacred path. Wilcox provides instructions on how to make, activate, and work with a mesa, as well as other practical exercises showing how we can use the power of the Andean spiritual tradition in our own lives.

A Woven Book of Knowledge

Author : Gail P. Silverman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Woven Book of Knowledge written by Gail P. Silverman and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for their intricate textiles, the Q'ero are a traditional Quechua-speaking Peruvian highland people. Their weavings are full of symbolic elements and motifs that encode specific cultural information and their textiles are the repositories for knowledge that has been passed down through generations. Based on ethnographic fieldwork undertaken between 1979 and 1991, A Woven Book of Knowledge examines and compares regional weaving styles and discusses the general texture of highland life. The author's long involvement with members of the Q'ero community has provided unique opportunities for insight into their ideas about weaving, iconography, and spatial and temporal concepts. But A Woven Book of Knowledge is more than an ethnographic study. If the warp of the book is the academic rigor of anthropology and linguistics, the weft is Silverman's love for the textiles themselves and for the Q'ero people. It is a result of a passion that has kept her in Cuzco for years, dedicating her career to the study of the local textile tradition.

Goddess to the Core

Author : Sierra Bender
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738722928
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Goddess to the Core written by Sierra Bender and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2010-09-08 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women are constantly faced with choices and demands. They can achieve great success in life, yet they still have a deep, nurturing center that longs to be expressed and fulfilled. They want to be a leader for their families and communities, and attain all that they desire, require, and deserve. How can women fully manifest their power while honoring their fluid and flexible feminine nature? After traveling down this road herself, Sierra Bender experienced a hard-won spiritual breakthrough and discovered that the answers to her questions couldn't be found in traditional healing systems or in our spiritually disconnected society-they were found, quite simply, within. In Goddess to the Core, Sierra offers a new way of living with true power and purpose by redefining fitness, beauty, and power for the twenty-first-century woman. Her unique method of healing from the inside out breaks the cycle of stress and disempowerment by developing all four bodies-spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical-to help women reclaim, restore, and rejoice in their core feminine essence. Cultivate inner knowing to understand one's true nature Learn silence so the mind and heart can evaluate and reflect Work with the breath to deepen emotional intelligence Gain a stronger, leaner, more stable muscular foundation Using an innovative mix of yoga techniques and indigenous spiritual tools such as smudging, prayer, ritual, and meditation, Sierra offers women practical guidance and inspiration for taking back vital energy while rediscovering happiness, health and wellness, inside and out. Praise: "Her unique integrative program offers women a blend of ancient and modern, spiritual and physical tools for strengthening themselves from the inside out. When women leave her workshop at Omega, their transformation is absolutely visible!" —Carla Goldstein, Director of the Women's Leadership Center at the Omega Institute "...[A] force of nature, an inspired teacher who has through direct experience created an astonishing technique of transformation certain to reveal the goddess within." —Wade Davis, Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic Society and bestselling author of One River and The Serpent and the Rainbow "She has seemingly interminable knowledge about how to help women 'be women.' She herself is challenging, compassionate, and radiantly confident, a model of how to balance the warrior and goddess energies women have." —Sharon M., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School executive coach for women "Sierra Bender is not an academic who was dying to teach because she was afraid of living; she is a "Warrior of Life" who can teach because she allowed nearly dying to release her to discover living." —Warren Farrell, Ph.D., author of Why Men Are the Way They Are and Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say

The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation

Author : Frank Gunderson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190659815
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation written by Frank Gunderson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation is a significant edited volume that critically explores issues surrounding musical repatriation, chiefly of recordings from audiovisual archives. The Handbook provides a dynamic and richly layered collection of stories and critical questions for anyone engaged or interested in repatriation or archival work. Repatriation often is overtly guided by an ethical mandate to "return" something to where it belongs, by such means as working to provide reconnection and Indigenous control and access to cultural materials. Essential as these mandates can be, this remarkable volume reveals dimensions to repatriation beyond those which can be understood as simple acts of "giving back" or returning an archive to its "homeland." Musical repatriation can entail subjective negotiations involving living subjects, intangible elements of cultural heritage, and complex histories, situated in intersecting webs of power relations and manifold other contexts. The forty-eight expert authors of this book's thirty-eight chapters engage with multifaceted aspects of musical repatriation, situating it as a concept encompassing widely ranging modes of cultural work that can be both profoundly interdisciplinary and embedded at the core of ethnographic and historical scholarship. These authors explore a rich variety of these processes' many streams, making the volume a compelling space for critical analysis of musical repatriation and its wider significance. The Handbook presents these chapters in a way that offers numerous emergent perspectives, depending on one's chosen trajectory through the volume. From retracing the paths of archived collections to exploring memory, performance, research goals, institutional power, curation, preservation, pedagogy and method, media and transmission, digital rights and access, policy and privilege, intellectual property, ideology, and the evolving institutional norms that have marked the preservation and ownership of musical archives-The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation addresses these key topics and more in a deep, richly detailed, and diverse exploration.

Keepers of the Ancient Knowledge

Author : Joan Parisi Wilcox
Publisher : Collins & Brown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keepers of the Ancient Knowledge written by Joan Parisi Wilcox and published by Collins & Brown. This book was released on 2001 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ".a mature and sensitive portrait of a mystical system as seen through the eyes of its practitioners.Written with heart and respect.a gateway for serious seekers to discover the world of living energy and.how to live in harmony with each other."--Deepak Chopra. Walk along the sacred path of ancient wisdom, and learn directly from the Andean shamans who guard and treasure their traditional ways. This groundbreaking and comprehensive look at Peruvian mysticism--written by a woman who immersed herself in the religion and became a high-level "priest"--will bring you to a rare world of living energy. In interviews, Q'ero mystics lay out their life-affirming, empowering cosmology and speak to our place in the great web of being. Their words are like a gift, designed to help us evolve spiritually--and simple exercises will help you begin this journey.

The Andean Cosmovision

Author : Oakley E. Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990480006
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Andean Cosmovision written by Oakley E. Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Andean Cosmovision is a way of perceiving and interacting with reality that has its roots in the traditional, indigenous culture of the high Andes. It is fundamentally different than the Western worldview. This Cosmovision is not a set of concepts or beliefs. It cannot be described or encompassed by words. It can, however, be experienced and it can be explored. This is a guidebook for exploring the Andean Cosmovision. The Cosmovision provides a path for discovering profound aspects of ourselves and the Cosmos. It is a path with a heart. It nourishes a more loving and mutually supportive relationship between ourselves and nature and the Cosmos. In addition to being personally significant, this relationship may be exactly what our species needs to start heading toward a future of greater beauty and greater health for the planet. For this path you don't need a guru. You need the Pachamama (the great being who is the mother earth); you need the Apus (the great beings who are the majestic mountain peaks); you need the stars, the wind, the trees, the rivers, the sun. This book will open the door to new territory and give you a map and some advice. It will then be up to you to determine whether what you find touches you deeply.

Peruvian Shamanism

Author : Matthew Magee
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781731539380
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book Peruvian Shamanism written by Matthew Magee and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-08 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contained within the pages of this book are the sacred teachings and guiding principles the Pachakuti Mesa Shamanic Tradition from Peru. Founded by kamasqa curandero don Oscar Miro-Quesada from Lima, Peru, this traditional wisdom is expressed through the ceremonial use of a complex altar system, known as a Pachakuti Mesa. This book functions as a compendium of this altar's ceremonial use amidst the backdrop of Peru's rich pre-Columbian history, cosmology, mythology, and centuries of healing artistry. The Pachakuti Mesa tradition is a living, breathing, evolving, holistic spiritual practice that is designed to build bridges between cultures, while honoring the universal wisdom of nature itself. This book seeks to unveil the methodology of this particular form of tribal shamanic practice in a way that is accessible to the western aspirant by offering parallels and cultural comparisons as well as references from leading scholars in the field of anthropology. Ultimately this book is designed to provide a "behind the scenes" account of the ritual practices and teachings of this tradition, while also offering the reader practical and pragmatic tools for applying this traditional wisdom to one's modern day life. Note: This book (originally published in 2002) was written over the course of four years while immersed in a direct shamanic apprenticeship with renowned Kamasqa Curandero don Oscar Miro-Quesada from Lima, Peru. This current version has been recently updated and fully revised (2017) to include over 100 pages of new information, photos, diagrams, and illustrations.

The Blue Tattoo

Author : Margot Mifflin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803211481
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Blue Tattoo written by Margot Mifflin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on historical records, including the letters and diaries of Oatman's friends and relatives, The Blue Tattoo is the first book to examine her life from her childhood in Illinois including the massacre, her captivity, and her return to white society - to her later years as a wealthy banker's wife in Texas."--BOOK JACKET.

The Anthropology of Sustainability

Author : Marc Brightman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137566361
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The Anthropology of Sustainability written by Marc Brightman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-02 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compiles research from leading experts in the social, behavioral, and cultural dimensions of sustainability, as well as local and global understandings of the concept, and on lived practices around the world. It contains studies focusing on ways of living, acting, and thinking which claim to favor the local and global ecological systems of which we are a part, and on which we depend for survival. The concept of sustainability as a product of concern about global environmental degradation, rising social inequalities, and dispossession is presented as a key concept. The contributors explore the opportunities to engage with questions of sustainability and to redefine the concept of sustainability in anthropological terms.