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The vihuela de arco, a musical instrument with a remote background in fourteenth-century Spain and frequently used in Renaissance music, was introduced to America and the Upper Amazon after the Spanish invasion. In Europe it stopped playing at the...
The author describes and analyzes the divination with coca leaves in the central Andean area, paying a particular attention to the linguistic structures used in the process. He demonstrates that coca leaves not only play an important role in the...
This article deals with the Mapuche religion as seen by Spanish chroniclers who wrote about the indigenous peoples of Chile. In these documents, we find numerous religious elements that help us understand the mythology and beliefs of the Mapuche at...
Based on ethnographic data collected in two Peruvian peasant communities on telluric worships, in this article I analyze the symbolic forms of the ritual interaction that Quechua people have with their environment, especially with topographic places...
The rite of the yurupari is typical of representatives of the indigenous groups that are part of the sociocultural community of Vaupes. Yurupari is the seasonal ritual. In the annual cycle of the indigenous groups in which it exists, the yurupari is...
The study investigates the special characteristics of the performance of a shamanic song that was recorded in the Alto Perené area, Chanchamayo province, Peru, in 2011. The author shows that the Alto Perené Ashéninka singer manipulates ritual...
In his Account of the Fables and Rites of the Incas, written at the end of the 16th century, the author, Cristóbal de Molina, el Cuzqueño, describes two indigenous prayers using a word that might be transcribed as capacocha. In this study, I will...
This ethnographic field work was carried out in the period 2011-2019 for the completion of the doctoral thesis. It addresses encountering a diversity of conceptions of time, as can be observed in traditional rituals carried out in public spaces. The...
This article presents the results of inquiries carried out with the Kankuamo and Kogui peoples from Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, specifically about their conceptions of education and communication in the symbolic field. In this framework,...