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Contenido: Introduction -- On Bolivian History -- Introduction -- Emerging patterns in national culture the earlly years -- The hacienda system : the landed and the landless -- Free Indians and the mita obligations -- Criollos : the Sapanish natives -- Mestisoz : neither white nor Indian -- Towards a national population picture -- Strogman rule : the rise of Caudillismo -- The Emergence of Political Parties and Participation -- Political party rule -- The Chaco war -- Toward the 1952 revolution -- The 1952 revolution and subsequent reforms -- The Village of Kachitu -- Introduction -- The Ecology of Kachitu -- History of Kachitu and its pre-1952 social organizaction -- Rise of the Evangelical Church in Kachitu -- The Loss of Vecino Power : Contemporary Socioeconomic and Political Structure -- The Supernatural as it Affects Health and Illiness -- Introduction -- Kachitu Medical Beliefs -- Medial Elements of the Kachitu Universe -- Gods -- Demonic Beings -- Protective rites : the dulce mesa -- Home remedies : calling lost souls -- The yatiris cure : regaining stolen souls -- Power, Victimization and Ritual Inversion in Kachitu Medical Beliefs and Ritual -- Hail -- Ritual Inversion -- Khanachachi -- Statistical Methodology -- Degree of Nosological Agreement -- Magical, Natural +Psychological Etiologies and Cures -- Etiologies -- Cures -- Comparing causes and cures -- Conclusion -- The Expression and Negotiation of Cultural Identity : Case Studies -- The Cases -- Eugenio Titirico -- Renita -- Ignacio -- The Braojos Family -- Marisol -- Elvira -- Conclusion.