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Gourdvines, fires, and Wixárika territorialityarticle 2000 • Liffman, Paul M.
Huichol • Middle America and the Caribbean > Northern Mexico
The Huichol claim that ritually-constructed genealogies and social bonds grow along ancestral migration pathways, similar to how gourdvines spread along the surface of the soil. Such ancestral vines are thought to connect the ceremonial fires in the ...