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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...