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Cycle écologique et cycle rituel: le cas d'un village andin
Author(s) -
Vallee Lionel
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
canadian review of sociology/revue canadienne de sociologie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.414
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1755-618X
pISSN - 1755-6171
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-618x.1972.tb02394.x
Subject(s) - dimension (graph theory) , geography , ecology , ethnology , history , biology , mathematics , pure mathematics
In the present article, the author examines the relationships existing between the ecological cycle and the ritual cycle of a Quechua‐speaking community of the South Central Andes of Peru (Department of Ayacucho). His analysis takes into consideration a double dimension: the ecological (objective and subjective) and the spatio‐temporal (physical and cultural). These two dimensions are seen as the essential basis for the elaboration of a dynamic model of analysis of the Andean communities. This model relies heavily on Murra's formulation of the “vertical” control of the ecology, and is exemplified by data the author and a Peruvian colleague, Salvador Palomino Flores, collected in 1969.