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Bolivia

One entry in one subarea: 1 at grade B. The points fall where the entry was collected, not where the story is set. Hover a point to see the subarea, click it to open the entry.

Cerro Rico of Potosí, on which every source converges; the first-hand ethnography cited here, however, comes from Huanuni, in the department of Oruro, on Cerro Posoqoni, and from a rite documented in May 2009

BEl Tío of the mineBolivia — Cerro Rico of Potosí, on which every source converges; the first-hand ethnography cited here, however, comes from Huanuni, in the department of Oruro, on Cerro Posoqoni, and from a rite documented in May 2009

The entries, in brief

The folklore of Bolivia documented in this atlas: El Tío of the mine. Every entry is placed on the map at the point where it was collected or attested — not where the story is set — and carries its declared grade of documentation (1 at grade B), with the sources it comes from.

El Tío of the mine B
He is not a devil to be driven off: he is the owner of the ore, and what separates him from every European or North American mine spirit is not the iconography — horns, hooves, erect phallus are common stock — but the regime of…

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