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The globalization of traditional medicine in northern peru: from shamanism to molecules. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2013 Northern Peru represents the center of the Andean “health axis,” with roots going back to traditional practices of Cupisnique culture (1000 BC). For more than a decade of research, semistructured interviews were conducted with healers, collectors, and sellers of medicinal plants.
Bussmann RW.
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NARRATING THE NATION: Heterotopian Struggles for Self‐Representation in the Cuban Diaspora
Museum Anthropology, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 124-139, Fall 2022., 2022 abstract Miami's sizeable Cuban diaspora has long used museums and galleries to produce and preserve their sense of community, united through the loss inherent to exile. Recent influxes of migration from Cuba (and beyond) are increasingly interpreted as a threat to the cultural forms many consider an “authentic” preservation of something now lost to ...
Jennifer Cearns
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Primitivist medicine and capitalist anxieties in ayahuasca tourism Peru
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 496-515, June 2022., 2022 Abstract Analysing healing practices at an ayahuasca tourism centre in Peru, this article illustrates how Shipibo practices of curing and sorcery have adapted to the demands of international clients searching for primitivist healing experiences. At the core of this adaption is the thorny issue of occult power and its relation to capital accumulation ...
Alex K. Gearin
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On Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras
, 2023 Religious Studies Review, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 611-614, December 2023.
Ayesha Adamo
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Rastrojo: Re(in)surgent forests
, 2023 Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 118-122, June 2023.
Kristina Van Dexter
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Comunidad diferenciada. Linchamiento por brujería e imaginarios políticos en un pueblo tojolabal
Liminar: Estudios Sociales y Humanísticos, 2004 Nos interesa debatir en este artículo las conclusiones a las que Carlos Lenkersdorf llega respecto a la sociedad y cultura tojolabal y el método. Lenkersdorf señala en el texto en discusión que su interés es acceder, a partir del estudio de la lengua, a ...
Astrid Maribel Pinto Durán +1 more
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Boletín de Literatura Oral, 2022 Un relato oral grabado en 2020 evoca un caso de locura inducida supuestamente por brujería que aconteció en el pueblo de Capulhuac, en el estado de México, cuando la madre del narrador era niña.
Xochiquetzalli Cruz Martínez +2 more
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Women, Crime, and Law in Latin America's Nineteenth Century
History Compass, Volume 24, Issue 4, August 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the literature on women as perpetrators of crime in 19th‐century Latin America, a topic largely overlooked in historical scholarship. While most studies focus on women as victims of domestic or sexual violence, this work explores women as perpetrators of crime, specifically reproductive crimes (abortion and infanticide ...
Reuben Zahler
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Santa Rita, Rita, Rita. Saberes salvajes y memorias feministas.
Re-visionesAl calor de la última ola de los feminismos se ha dado una emergencia de memorias feministas. Entre ellas, me interesa la recuperación de ciertas historias que encuentran en las maldiciones, las estampitas o las fantasmas la forma de expresión de sus ...
Lidia Mateo Leivas
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 275-298, May 2026.This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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