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In 2008, the celebrations of Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria, patron saint of Humahuaca and Puno, coincided on February 2 with the beginning of carnival. At the same time, the authors of this article were conducting fieldwork, each in one of the…
Podhajcer, Adil

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This paper seeks to address the religious festivity in honor of the Señor de Quillacas, held in the city of San Salvador de Jujuy. The religious performance presented here is a celebration dedicated to the patron saint of a locality in Oruro,…
Guzmán, Juan

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This article presents an analysis of the All Souls’ Day ritual, a cultural phenomenon belonging to the peoples of Andean origin in Northwestern Argentina. To this end, I observed how the Ramos family performs the ritual in the Quebrada de Humahuaca,…
Torino, Georgina Soledad

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The pesebres, or Jujuy Nativity-scene rituals, constitute one of the most valuable expressions of Jujuy’s symbolic heritage. During the period that includes the preparations for their assembly, at the beginning of December, and their closing,…
Quiroz, Angélica

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The decision to erect some kind of construction—a house, a corral, or a pirca wall—entails the mobilization of a great deal of knowledge, both technical and design-related. At the same time, the moment of construction requires the mobilization of a…
Tomasi, Jorge

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This essay analyzes the relationship between human beings and the environment in the Quebrada de Humahuaca, province of Jujuy, Argentina, within the sphere of livestock production. The analysis is based on ethnographic sources and on texts that…
Mamaní, Lina María

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The purpose of this paper is to present different aspects related to lightning and its cult in the Puna of Jujuy, Argentina, drawing on documentary material from the early twentieth century as well as on contemporary ethnography. It seeks to reflect…
Bugallo, Lucila

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This article proposes alternative methods for moving beyond the functionalist and essentialist paradigms still operative in many aspects of Andean Studies. As part of this prevailing paradigm, it examines the functionalist approach to culture and…
Arnold, Denise

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This essay proposes an approach to Andean space from a critical perspective on “landscape” as a modern historical construction that configures Andean space as an “object” opposed to a “subjectum” (subject), as elaborated by Descartes in the…
Vilca, Mario

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The role of cigarette smoking among Indigenous youth in Latin America has not been well studied. Our objective was to identify Andean youths’ beliefs regarding the ceremonial use of tobacco and to discuss the potential applications of these findings…
Alderete, E.

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Latin America is the world region with the highest rates of youth tobacco use and the widest socioeconomic gaps. Although Indigenous peoples constitute the most disadvantaged social group in the region, no data are available on cigarette smoking in…
Alderete, E.

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The term “negative emotions” refers to emotions that produce a distressing emotional experience, such as anxiety, anger, and sadness/depression. The objective of this study was to interpret and discuss negative emotional states as predictors of…
Bejarano, Ignacio

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The smoking epidemic is a global phenomenon. Today, it is estimated that the number of smokers of both sexes amounts to one third of the adult population worldwide, of whom 7 percent are women. In developed countries, 42 percent of men and 24 percent…
Bergesio, L.

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This descriptive study examines, through the application of a survey, the sociodemographic and working conditions of tobacco farmworkers in the Department of El Carmen, province of Jujuy, Argentina (N = 100).
Women constitute the majority of workers…
Chalabe, P. A.

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The study is based on 14 interviews conducted in the departments of San Pedro, Libertador General San Martín, Fraile Pintado, and Santa Clara, in the province of Jujuy, with young people between 10 and 15 years of age. At the same time, interviews…
Vilca, Viviana

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