Catastrophes and weddings. Chachi ritual as metamorphosis
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Catastrophes and Weddings. Chachi Ritual as Metamorphosis. A question that has intrigued anthropologists for a long time is why catastrophic anxieties are so omnipresent among Amerindian peoples. Known in the literature as « millenarianism », fears of an apocalypse appear time and again, both in lowland and highland South America. This article aims to contribute to a better understanding of this phenomenon by examining notions of metamorphosis or « shape-shifting ». The particular case described examines the link between catastrophes and the wedding festival of the Chachi, Amerindians from the Pacific coast of Ecuador.
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Ventura i Oller, M. (2025) · Revista Española De Antropología Americana · doi:10.5209/reaa.99190
- Authors
- Praet, I.
- Affiliations
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford and Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale, Paris. Linacre College, St Cross Road, Oxford OX1 3JA, UK
- Venue
- Journal De La Société Des Américanistes
- Publisher
- OpenEdition
- Published
- 2009
- Volume
- 95
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 71-89
- ISSN
- 0037-9174 (ISSN-L)
- 1957-7842
- OpenAlex
- W1555924031
- Cited by
- 6
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2018: 2
- FWCI
- 14.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- fr
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal de la Société des Américanistes (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Durham Research Online (Durham University) (submittedVersion)
- OpenEdition (OpenEdition) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Indigenous Studies in Latin America
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Latin American history and culture
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
- Keywords
- metamorphosis, shape-shifting, millenarianism, Amerindian peoples, apocalypse, Pacific coast of Ecuador, indigenous cosmology
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