The Kantu Ensemble of the Kallawaya at Charazani (Bolivia)
1985; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 17; Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/768440
ISSN2304-3857
Autores Tópico(s)Latin American history and culture
ResumoThe Kallawaya belang to the Quechua-speaking population of Bolivia and live on the eastern slope of the Andes in the Charazani valley system, north of Lake Titicaca, near the Peruvian border.Located in the Bautista Saavedra province of the Department of La Paz, the Valley and Rio Charazani cut across the Cordilleras and thus serve as a gateway to the lower-lying Yungas to the east.The Incas in their heyday prized this valley highly, for it lay at the outermost Iimits of their empire's expansion and opened into areas where the coca plant and tropical fruits and herbs were grown.Because of the alkaloids it contains, the coca plant (Eritroxilon Coca L.) has played an important role in rituals and cult practices since pre-Spanish times (M.Wendorf de Sejas 1982:223; J.W. Bastien 1978:19).The Kallawaya people have been known since antiquity as herbalists and healers, and the Incas are said to have accorded them special privileges on this account: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala teils in his "Nueva Cor6nica y Buen Gobierno" from about 1600 of "Callauayas" carrying Inca Tupac Yupanqui (1471-1493) and his wife Mama Occlo-Coya in a sedan chair at the Cuzcan court (F
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