A category that will be very useful for this analysis is "Andean world" which delineates the geographical and historical amplitude characteristic of the sociocultural universe I want to comprise. 'The Andean' is defined as a distinctive cosmovision structured by some elements with a long historical stay; these elements are characteristic of populations that existed and still exist in the geographic area around the central part of the Andean Mountains.

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Cardoso, Maria Lucia de Macedo. (1995, March). Gender, culture and development in Bolivian Andes. Women and Development (W&D). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2105/9197