Festival Threads
Khipu Calendars and Mercedarian Missions in Rapaz, Peru (c. 1565–1825)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19175697 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hyland (0000-0002-9728-5289, corresponding author), Sabine Hyland |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 119-147 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Catholic historical review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-8080 • E-ISSN: 1534-0708 |
| Publisher | The Catholic University of America Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/cat.2021.0004 |
| OpenAlex | W3135873101 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The introduction of the Christian calendar into Spanish American missionary zones often led to novel forms of calendrical record-keeping as pre-Christian methods of time-keeping were adapted to the Christian festival cycle. Yet while indigenous Christian calendars for Mesoamerica have been well studied, their Andean counterparts remain virtually unknown. This article examines a set of khipus (Andean cord texts) from highland Peru that, according to local ritual specialists, served as annual festival calendars. Research in diocesan archives and the Sixth Lima Provinial Council’s unpublished reports (1772) reveals the episodic and intermittent nature of the liturgical worship in colonial Rapaz recorded on these khipu calendars
Ancient history · Archaeology · Colonialism · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Mesoamerica · Political science · Worship · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Studies on Spain · History · Latin American history and culture · Law
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |