Cosmological renewal: an anthropological analysis of New Year celebrations in the Andes as a rite of passage
Rites of passage are performed on an individual or community basis in order to make visible a transformation in the status, state or temporality of a person, social group or even the entire cosmos. Such rites, which are related to the periodicity of cosmic time, imply that the universe is governed b...
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Anthropological Society of Oxford
2018
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