The author of this article considered that a thorough understanding of the ritual reference to crops of corn and potato requires joint examination of the peculiarities of the production system, in each case, with the way the Andean world was built and carried out their social practice. Mythology and ritual associated with corn and potato, are complementary and equally important to explain the holistic view of the Andean man. We have to understand the Mother Potato or «Ispall Mama» as an entity that emerges from the underworld, animated in a «Tinku» with the contribution of the stellar universe.

The author of this article considered that a thorough understanding of the ritual reference to crops of corn and potato requires joint examination of the peculiarities of the production system, in each case, with the way the Andean world was built and carried out their social practice. Mythology and ritual associated with corn and potato, are complementary and equally important to explain the holistic view of the Andean man. We have to understand the Mother Potato or «Ispall Mama» as an entity that emerges from the underworld, animated in a «Tinku» with the contribution of the stellar universe.

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Con un interés metodológico, no exento de un deliberado propósito analítico, podemos abstraer dos grandes maneras de entender lo que es el mito en la Antropología contemporánea; éstas son: de un lado, la que revela el punto de vista funcionalista y, de otro, la que nos ofrece el estructuralismo de la escuela Lévi-Straussiana.

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A partir de la mitología sobre dioses montaña regionales, la presente tesis ofrece un acercamiento a la cosmovisión e ideas mágico-religiosas que rigen la vida del hombre andino y expresan su manera de comprender la naturaleza y el medio social en que se desenvuelve. Se trata de un estudio contextualizado y comparativo de la tradición oral sobre deidades tutelares, considerando los cuatro suyos o áreas tradicionalmente diferenciadas en el espacio andino. La temática se ubica en el área de investigaciones antropológicas sobre estructuras simbólicas, con aportes de la etnografía, etnología, etnohistoria, lingüística y folklore. Los objetivos específicos que se propone son: 1) Recuperar y organizar un corpus de relatos míticos de la tradición oral sobre los apus Awsangate de Quispicanchis-Cuzco (Qollasuyo), Sawasiray-Pitusiray de Calca-Cuzco (Antisuyo), Mallmanya de Grau y ...

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Con un interés metodológico, no exento de un deliberado propósito analítico, podemos abstraer dos grandes maneras de entender lo que es el mito en la Antropología contemporánea; éstas son: de un lado, la que revela el punto de vista funcionalista y, de otro, la que nos ofrece el estructuralismo de la escuela Lévi-Straussiana.