Performing Symmetry in Andean Weather Forecasting: The Practice of Cabañuelas, Beyond Divination and Suffering
This paper analyzes a practice known as Cabañuelas - - series of signs in the current year. The knowledge and gestures associated with this practice have traditionally been understood according to the classical division between pragmatic techniques and magic rituals, an approach that I set aside in...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2022
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| In: |
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 90, Issue: 4, Pages: 987-1009 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Andes
/ Peru
/ Local knowledge
/ Weather forecast
/ Performativity (Cultural sciences)
/ Fortune-telling
/ Ritual
/ Agriculture
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BB Indigenous religions KBR Latin America |
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