Bugallo, Lucila and Mario Vilca (comps.) (2016). Wak'as, devils and the dead. Signigicant otherness in the Andean worlds. San Salvador de Jujuy: National University of Jujuy-EDIUNJU-IFEA

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https://doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.201701.010

Keywords:

entities, dead, ontology, rituality

Abstract

 W’akas, devils and dead raises new readings to understand the presence in the Andes of a wide spectrum of entities and beings from the other world that interact with the local population. This review highlights its relevance, as well as the concept of "fluidity" that  most collaborators handle to characterize souls or supays, among others.

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Author Biography

  • Oscar Muñoz Morán, Complutense University of Madrid

    PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Salamanca. Professor of the Department of American History (Anthropology of America) at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has been a researcher-professor at the College of Michoacán (Mexico), the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology-CIESAS (Mexico), at the Universidad Veracruzana (Mexico), at the University of San Antonio Abad de Cusco (Peru) and at the Tomás Frías University in Potosí (Bolivia). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Spanish Journal of American Anthropology and a full member of FLACSO Spain. His research interests point to representations of the past and cosmology in indigenous societies in Mexico and Bolivia. He has published in this regard in the books Permanence over time (Colegio de Michoacán, 2009) and Time, space and tutelaty entities (Abya Yala, 2014), as well as various articles in specialized journals.

References

Descola, Philippe (2012). Más allá de naturaleza y cultura. Buenos Aires: Amorrortu.

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Published

2017-08-01

Issue

Vol. 35 No. 38 (2017): Culture, politics and political ecology of water

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Reviews

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How to Cite

Bugallo, Lucila and Mario Vilca (comps.) (2016). Wak’as, devils and the dead. Signigicant otherness in the Andean worlds. San Salvador de Jujuy: National University of Jujuy-EDIUNJU-IFEA. (2017). Anthropologica del Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, 35(38), 245-249. https://doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.201701.010