Wak'as, diablos y muertos
An edition of Wak'as, diablos y muertos (2016)
alteridades significantes en el mundo andino
By Lucila Bugallo,Mario Vilca
Publish Date
2016
Publisher
Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Jujuy,Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos
Language
spa
Pages
452
Description:
This work highlights the relevance, as well as the concept of 'fluidity' of most of the entities and the otherworldly beings that interact with the local Andean population. These beings are separated into three categories (w'akas, devils and the dead). Most of the texts intended to explain the multiple faces and ontologies of these different beings, to try to know why they also have this feature of "fluidity". "The universe of these beings is multi-faceted, dynamic and changing, since they are formations that mutate in continuous displacement, overlays, and substitutions." (HKB Translation)-Page 12.
subjects: Indians of South America, Huacas, Ethnology
Places: Andes