In his Account of the Fables and Rites of the Incas, written at the end of the 16th century, the author, Cristóbal de Molina, el Cuzqueño, describes two indigenous prayers using a word that might be transcribed as capacocha. In this study, I will...
The study investigates the special characteristics of the performance of a shamanic song that was recorded in the Alto Perené area, Chanchamayo province, Peru, in 2011. The author shows that the Alto Perené Ashéninka singer manipulates ritual...
Based on ethnographic data collected in two Peruvian peasant communities on telluric worships, in this article I analyze the symbolic forms of the ritual interaction that Quechua people have with their environment, especially with topographic places...