« Les mots, la mort, les corps ». Récits d’apprentissages de guérisseurs des Andes sud-péruviennes

Abstract

This article presents a study of stories of learning collected from healers of a village in South Peruvian Andes. Paying particular attention to relations with the body, the analysis exposes learning mechanisms linked to the construction of the healer’s reputation. It also reveals founding stories whose crucial passages concern death and describe divine and/or social elections.