Comments on: The Peru Pishtacos [Featured] http://enperublog.com/2009/12/01/the-peru-pishtacos/ All you could ever want to know about Peru Sun, 26 Feb 2023 22:03:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: Barbara http://enperublog.com/2009/12/01/the-peru-pishtacos/comment-page-1/#comment-13374 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:55:51 +0000 http://enperublog.com/?p=3546#comment-13374 Thanks for posting on this story and showing the connection between current events and Andean myths. I learned about the pishtacos four years ago when I went to Qoyllur Rit’i with an anthropologist from Cusco. The myth is still very current and people persist in the idea that fat-harvesting is a viable trade in Peru. There has been some intriguing anthopological work on why the myth exerts such a hold over local people’s imaginations.

The anthropologist explained to me that typically the pishtaco is imagined to be a gringo. I was surprised to see in this news account that the pischtaco gang were Peruvians.

]]> By: PISHTACOS - UMA FARSA | O Serial Killer http://enperublog.com/2009/12/01/the-peru-pishtacos/comment-page-1/#comment-13232 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:53:23 +0000 http://enperublog.com/?p=3546#comment-13232 […] El comercio (em espanhol), …en Peru (em inglês), BBC Brasil e […]

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