At the Mountains' Altar: Anthropology of Religion in an Andean Community

by Frank Salomon

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In high-Andean Peru, Rapaz village maintains a temple to mountain beings who command water and weather. By examining the ritual practices and belief systems of an Andean community, this book provides students with rich understandings of unfamiliar religious experiences and delivers theories of religion from the realm of abstraction. From core field encounters, each chapter guides readers outward in a different theoretical direction, successively...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1138037508

ISBN13:9781138037502

Release Date:December 2017

Publisher:Routledge

Length:236 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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