Suchergebnisse

In the present article, the author examines the relationships existing between the ecological cycle and the ritual cycle of a Quechua‐speaking community of the South Central Andes of Peru (Department of Ayacucho). His analysis takes into consideration a double dimension: the ecological (objective and subjective) and the spatio‐temporal (physical and cultural). These two dimensions are seen as the essential basis for the elaboration of a dynamic model of analysis of the Andean communities. This model relies heavily on Murra's formulation of the "vertical" control of the ecology, and is exemplified by data the author and a Peruvian colleague, Salvador Palomino Flores, collected in 1969.