Tag - reciprocità culturale andina

For at least 5000 years Coca represents a privileged emblem of the Andean culture: it’s considered a prodigious sacred plant, rich in many beneficial properties. 

The Andean communities are strongly tied to cultural traditions and Coca is a protagonist in ancient ceremonies and rituals; many signs of reverence can be found everywhere; also important it’s the economical role Coca plays, binding the different climate zones from the Andes to the Amazon, through the dynamics of production and marketing, even in terms of exchange of raw material, on the basis of Andean cultural reciprocity, in benefit of all the population, without any unfavorable mediations.

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