Even when contemporary Andean peoples show a strong rejection to surgical interventions due to cultural reasons, in 16<sup>th</sup>- and 17<sup>th</sup>-century colonial sources we find acounts that describe the formal expression of symbolic surgical interventions (carried out while in trance) that aim to extract from the body those objects and substances that materialize the ailment. This article analyzes some of these mock interventions and compares them with current shamanic therapeutical strategies carried out by Andean healers.<br><br>Si bien los pueblos andinos contemporáneos muestran un marcado rechazo a las intervenciones quirúrgicas por diversas razones de índole cultural, encontramos en los relatos coloniales de los siglos XVI y X...
La thèse décrit les pratiques épistémiques des populations rurales aymara et quechua de la municipal...
In 1997 agricultural workers, turned into looters, found an intact funerary site in the cloud forest...
Within anthropology there are a variety of theories regarding the origin, context, significance, fu...
Even when contemporary Andean peoples show a strong rejection to surgical interventions due to cultu...
The magical behavior has the peculiarity of trying to affect reality through a base mythological. Th...
Andean places are animated by agential beings embodied in and associated with features of the local ...
Legitimating an Andean shamanic ritual through historical narrative (Cusco, Peru). In the anonymous ...
Currently, growing numbers of Western medical practitioners consider traditional healing practices a...
The Aymara conception of illness and its causes.The authors have studied traditional medical practic...
Although rituals concerning the decoration of the body as a cannibalistic ritual might go unnoticed ...
In colonial times, queros were used to drink chicha and to formalize pacts in ritual ceremonies by t...
This article addresses the characteristics and manifestations (beliefs and healing practices) of t...
Crossing boundaries is a well-known practice for Aymara people living in northern Chile, Peru and Bo...
This article documents and analyses the concepts of etiology and prevention as well as the healing m...
The role of medical practitioners among the Incas is addressed, based on archeological findings and ...
La thèse décrit les pratiques épistémiques des populations rurales aymara et quechua de la municipal...
In 1997 agricultural workers, turned into looters, found an intact funerary site in the cloud forest...
Within anthropology there are a variety of theories regarding the origin, context, significance, fu...
Even when contemporary Andean peoples show a strong rejection to surgical interventions due to cultu...
The magical behavior has the peculiarity of trying to affect reality through a base mythological. Th...
Andean places are animated by agential beings embodied in and associated with features of the local ...
Legitimating an Andean shamanic ritual through historical narrative (Cusco, Peru). In the anonymous ...
Currently, growing numbers of Western medical practitioners consider traditional healing practices a...
The Aymara conception of illness and its causes.The authors have studied traditional medical practic...
Although rituals concerning the decoration of the body as a cannibalistic ritual might go unnoticed ...
In colonial times, queros were used to drink chicha and to formalize pacts in ritual ceremonies by t...
This article addresses the characteristics and manifestations (beliefs and healing practices) of t...
Crossing boundaries is a well-known practice for Aymara people living in northern Chile, Peru and Bo...
This article documents and analyses the concepts of etiology and prevention as well as the healing m...
The role of medical practitioners among the Incas is addressed, based on archeological findings and ...
La thèse décrit les pratiques épistémiques des populations rurales aymara et quechua de la municipal...
In 1997 agricultural workers, turned into looters, found an intact funerary site in the cloud forest...
Within anthropology there are a variety of theories regarding the origin, context, significance, fu...