Rituales para hacer «justicia». Maldiciones, invocaciones, yatiris y ofrendas para la libertad en la cárcel de San Pedro (La Paz, Bolivia).
This article focuses on the work of yatiris prisoners, ritual specialists who officiate Andean ritual offerings on behalf of inmates who require their services. These offerings, given to the principal supernatural beings of the Andean pantheon the day before sentencing, serve to obtain the prisoner...
| Published in: | Revista Espanola de Antropologia Americana Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 489 - 515 |
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2012
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