Woven Prayers: Q’epi Cloths and the August First Payment to the Earth Mother
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This examination of the social semiotics of ritual and of the woven cloths used in the August 1 payment to the Earth Mother is based on fifteen months of fieldwork, including participant observation and in-depth interviews in Choquecancha, Cuzco, Peru. It advances a new model of dualism: the dialectic of dualism, in which opposing parts are interrelated and interdependent in the formation of a whole.
This model is found throughout the social, political, economic, cosmological, and aesthetic culture of the Runakuna, as exemplified in qhari-warmi relations, the living landscape, and the woven bundles that derive from pre-Columbian funerary bundles.
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