The selk'nam's extinction generated a controversy regarding its causes within the Salesian Congregation. The evangelization and civilization process of the selk'nam began through the creation of the Nuestra SEñora de la ...

Local power may be understood either as a government, shaped on the basis of social relationships and institutions, that adjusts to social structures, or as a series of mechanisms and procedures of symbolic mobilization ...

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This article attempts discusses the local context associated with taxes and tributes in the Andean communities of the Peruvian South, particularly in the community of Sibaya. Documents desribing the social and economic ...

In this article, I discuss, according to the theoretical-analytical framework of Menéndez (1994), how women and their midwives follow a plural therapeutical itinerary during pregnancy and labor in the region of Antigua, ...

During my field work among the Wauja Indians of the Upper Xingu, I collected several narratives about local people who had suffered animal transformations when they were severely ill. Most of them returned to their human ...