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a trinity of Christs: cultic processes in Andean Catholicism
Author(s) -
SALLNOW M. J.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1982.9.4.02a00070
Subject(s) - indigenous , ethnography , locality , anthropology , ethnology , history , sociology , geography , philosophy , ecology , linguistics , biology
This article uses historical and contemporary ethnographic data to elucidate the patterns of religious processes in the central Andes. It focuses on three neighboring Catholic shrines in a Peruvian rural locality. The interrelated devotional histories of these shrines are shown to exemplify processes evident in both the precontact and postcontact epochs whereby popular cults, patterned according to an indigenous Andean cosmology, are variously officialized, stifled, or controlled by emergent cultural elites. [Peru, Andes, Quechua, Catholicism, religious change]