At the Mountains’ Altar: Anthropology of Religion in an Andean Community

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In high-Andean Peru, Rapaz village maintains a temple to mountain beings who command water and weather. By examining the ritual practices and belief systems of an Andean community, this book provides students with wealthy understandings of unfamiliar non secular experiences and delivers theories of faith from the area of abstraction. From core field encounters, each and every chapter guides readers outward in a unique theoretical direction, successively exploring the main paths within the anthropology of faith.


As well as addressing classical approaches within the anthropology of faith to rural modernity, Salomon engages with more recent currents such as cognitive-evolution models, power-oriented critiques, the ontological reworking of relativism, and the “new materialism” within the context of a deep-rooted Andean ethos. He reflects on central questions such as: Why does sacred ritualism seem almost universal? Is it seated in social power, human psychology, symbolic meanings, or cultural logics? Are varied theories compatible? Is “religion” still a tenable category within the post-colonial world?


At the Mountains’ Altar is a valuable resource for college students taking courses at the anthropology of faith, Andean cultures, Latin American ethnography, non secular studies, and indigenous peoples of the Americas.

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