At the Mountains Altar Anthropology of Religion in an Andean Community 1st Edition by Frank Salomon ISBN 9781138037502 1138037508

1 A Single Nest (And Some Theories About Cognitive-Evolutionary Foundations of Religiosity)

Llacuaces, the “Children of Lightning”

Glacial Lords: The Nature and Rules of Rainfall-Based Pasturing

Motherwoman: The Nature and Rules of Irrigation

Chacras: The Nature and Rules of High-Altitude Farming

A Traditional Inner Cabinet Rules Herding, Farming, and Ritual

Communal Endowments and Their Rites

Gods in Mountains, Gods Everywhere, Gods in the Brain: Is Religiosity an Inborn Cognitive Bias?

Gods Everywhere, for Adaptive Evolutionary Reasons: Religiosity as Authenticator of “Prosocial” Commitments

Reductionism and the Retired Engineer’s Parable

Notes

References

2 A Little Palace of Analogies (And a Revised Structuralist View of Cultural Fundamentals)

Astride Culture and Nature: Analogism?

A Sacred House, But Not for Saints

Works and Nights at Kaha Wayi

The Ritualist as Advocate, Priest, and Hero

“Lady Storehouse” and the Work of Female Officers

What Does a Bendelhombre Know? “Analogical” Erudition and Monotheism

Notes

References

3 Children of the Mummy Libiac Cancharco (And Ideas About the Sacralization of Society)

The Historical Context: When Spain Set Out to Rule Andaxes

The Uncertain Antiquity of Kaha Wayi and Pasa Qulqa

Extirpators and the Assault on Andean Ancestor Veneration

But Why Must the Dead Exist Forever? a Classic Sociological View of Death

The Extirpators and the Assault on Mama Raywana, “Mother of Food,” in the 17Th Century

All Religions Are True: The Durkheimian Perspective

Kaha Wayi Taking a New Shape: “Little Houses” of Cult and the Charlatan QuiñOnes

Notes

References

4 Songs for Herds and Crops (And Thoughts About Religious Experience) With Luis Andrade Ciudad

Quechua, a Vulnerable Giant

Tinyas (“Drum Songs”) as Poetry for Making Life Flourish

Night Songs of the Animal Powers

Nonreductionist (Or Less Reductionist) Psychological Theories of Religiosity

Directions of Andean Experience?

Notes

References

5 Mending Their Sacred Things (And Thinking About Religion as Symbolism, Science, or Power)

Convening a Crew, and Friday Night Movies in Rapaz

Partnering Conservation in the Sacred Precinct

A Temple as Gallery of Symbols

The Symbolic or Interpretative Direction

A Temple as Source of Knowledge, and Intellectualist Theories of Religion

A Surprise in the Ceiling, and Theories About Religion as Disciplines of Power

At a Triple Intersection of Theories: Diverging Ideas About How Religion Works on and in People

Notes

References

6 A Temple By Night (And Religions as Other Ontologies)

Doubling Down on Relativism

Do Rapacinos Disagree Among Themselves at the Ontological Level?

The Old Allegiance and the Weather

Tourism, “Doublethink,” and the Day/Night Solution

Protestant Dissidence and “Cosmopolitics”

Questions and Options in the “Ontological Turn”

Notes

References

7 The Ground Trembles (Closing Thoughts on Secularity and the “Material Turn”)

Secularity/Religion on Trial

“New Materialism”: Toward an Anthropology of All Things

Post-Humanism?

Envoi: Researchers and Religionists

Notes

References

Glossary of Non-English and Field-Specific Terms

Index