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The purpose of this article is to document the vocabulary, practices, and ancestral knowledge of Tapiete women in relation to reproductive processes (menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum). The research attempts to understand aspects...

Ultimate value is rarely fully realized as people have to maintain a balance between values in their everyday life. Robbins (2015) notes, however, that it may be perfectly exemplified through ritual. In this paper, I want to show that the perfect...

Anthropologists have claimed that no society known historically, and no contemporary society for which we have ethnographic information, has lacked a system of religious beliefs. But not all scholars have agreed with this claim of universality, and...

The outburst of antiracist protests in the USA in 2020 demonstrates how deeply this society’s present-day problems are rooted in its past. From this perspective, a study of the cultural memory of the time of the Civil War and the abolition of...

The article addresses the issue of pregnancy termination in the Tzotzil and Tzeltal communities of the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. The analysis of norms, practices and meanings related to pregnancy termination is based on the compilation of...

This article paves the way for a possible theorization of business creation in a context characterized by witchcraft. Indeed, this article proposes a construction of the conceptual whole that underpins representations of the association between...