This publication examines the serious and sometimes undervalued contributions of ladies to the tradition, healthiness, and subsistence in their groups as lively, strong, and clever ritual specialists.
• assurance comprises neighborhood practices in nations as assorted as Australia, Peru, India, Mexico, South Korea, Vietnam, Chile, Canada, and Guatemala
• offers details from interviews with girls who function strong sociopolitical brokers, healers, leaders, and non secular ritual specialists
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