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The following day, Señor Aurelio and Benito left the township together and parted ways on the road: My younger brother was more adventurous, more decisive, we can say. On a Sunday four years after Señor Aurelio talked about his brother at Don Melesio's restaurant, he called out of the blue to tell me about the night he and Benito said goodbye. Señor Aurelio, who was in his early 70s, had been part of Peru's grassroots movements for more than five decades. On a Friday morning in the middle of fall 2019, I stood outside a colonial building not too far from Arequipa's main cathedral, waiting for Señor Aurelio,[1] a member of a civic association dedicated to monitoring corruption. [Extracted from the article]

Doing I Dieta i in the way he envisages, in dedicated and resourced facilities, is an emergent practice, it enables an actualization of Shipibo roots, in new conditions, integrating selected elements from foreign culture and protecting what needs to be transmitted to future generations. For José Lopez Sanchez, a Shipibo Onaya (One Who Knows) who runs a Shipibo healing center (Shipibo Rao) in the Ucayali region of Peru, the future is something that you plant now. Dev ([3], ix) defines I samati i (to do I Dieta i in Shipibo) as follows: "Healers use dieting practices, consisting of periods of fasting and deprivation, to learn from teacher plants (or other material or spiritual entities).". [Extracted from the article]

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