The Siekopái ritual specialists (yajé unkukë), through the consumption of yajé, gain access to the invisible world, where they experience the reception of various gifts. It is a vital experience that, in many cases, exceeds both their own...
In the widest sense, assisted reproduction is a manifestation of the redefinition of relations between nature, culture, science, technology, and society. More specifically, it has destabilized the naturalistic model of conception and the natural...
In the anthropological literature there are few cases of an ethnographic analysis of the phenomenon of death in transnational contexts, despite the fact that several anthropological empirical investigations have given attention to death in this...