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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Cosmology and Personal Experience: Representations of the Sacred Landscape in Salasaca, Ecuador
Abstract
dc:descriptionA central concern of the thesis is how people understand the transformative powers of the landscape and the significance of that power at the level of individual belief. I conclude with an argument that we must continue to explore how individuals mediate, reproduce, and change cultural patterns. Cultural patterns influence not only what people say, but also how they experience the landscape. Cosmological aspects of the landscape, I show, are created and recreated through experience, social interaction, memory, and narrative.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Anthropology
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Corr, Rachel E.
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Whitten, Norman E., Jr.
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI9989970
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85336