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"I'm Inca": The Fiesta of Mamacha Carmen in the Andean Village of Pisac

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Summary, in English

This article examines the communication of identity in ritual dancing during the Fiesta de Virgen del Carmen in Pisac, a village in the Peruvian Andes. In framing an arena for representation and interpreting local lifeworlds the fiesta is endowed with profoundly existential significance for the participants. In performing the different characters, the dancers are given opportunities to renegotiate social and economic structures. By using their bodies to transcend their everyday practices and habitus, and to infuse them with new meanings, the dancers articulate new and politically transformative messages about tradition, power and social hierarchy.

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

46-56

Publication/Series

Journal of Ritual Studies

Volume

21

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Topic

  • History of Religions

Keywords

  • Andean fiesta
  • Mamacha Carmen
  • dances
  • ritual

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0890-1112