“ ‘I’m Inca’ : The Fiesta of Mamacha Carmen in the Andean village of Pisac”

• 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.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Filosofi, etik och religion -- Religionshistoria (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion -- History of Religions (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Andean fiesta

Mamacha Carmen

dances

ritual

SOCIAL SCIENCES

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP

Andean fiesta

Mamacha Carmen

dances

ritual

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)