Lubricating Water Metabolism: How Mountain Offerings Contribute to Water Sustainability in the Peruvian Andes
Karsten Paerregaard
Abstract:This article examines how water's transformative quality shapes Andean offering rituals and how these in turn perform the hydrological cycle as a metabolic process that involves humans as well as superhuman beings. It enquires into the offering practices of an Andean community providing an ethnographic account of its water management and the tributes it pays to the mountain and the springs that supply it with water. Building on the concept of water metabolism, the article interrogates the offerings as a replic… Show more
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