Sayings of the Ancestors: The Spiritual Life of the Sibundoy Indians - Paperback

by John Holmes McDowell (Author)

The Sibundoy valley of southwestern Colombia is the home of a unique Indian culture-one that blends Incan elements with those of the aboriginal natives. Moreover, Sibundoy bridges two domains, the Andean highlands and the Amazonian basin, and inter-mixed with all of these elements are European influences, particularly folk and orthodox Catholicism. From this cultural enclave, John McDowell presents here a body of oral material collected from the Santiago Ingano community. This corpus of materia

Author Biography

John Holmes McDowell is associate professor of folklore at Indiana University.