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This web site
documents and makes accessible a photo exhibit by Peruvian photographer
Vicente
Revilla held at the W.E.B. Du Bois Library,
University
of Massachusetts Amherst, during Latino
Heritage Month, October 1999. Mr. Revilla also made a presentation
on October 12, el Día de la Raza, which was co-sponsored by the
UMass
Amherst Libraries, the Department
of Anthropology, and the Center
for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies.
The festival of Señor
Qoyllur de Rit'i takes place annually high in the Southern Andes of Peru,
16,000 feet above sea level.
This online version of the
exhibit was created by Priscilla Higuera, John Raible, Jeff Belizaire,
and Isabel Espinal, with assistance from Russ Martínez, Patricia
Miller and Emily Silverman.
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