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Cannibalistic exchanges with mountain‐ancestors: Moral economies of gold mining in northern Peru.

Campesinos (peasants) and norteños (northerner entrepreneurs) in highland Huamachuco, la Libertad, northern Peru—reconcile their mining within Andean practices about the perceived sentience and agency of mountain‐ancestors (apus). They do so by engaging in two different types of apu cannibalism that...

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Published in:Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Anthropology Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 220 - 230
Main Author: Bacigalupo, Ana Mariella
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Sep2024
Subjects:
Businesspeople
Mines & mineral resources
Gold mining
Legal authorities
Mining corporations
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