The third article by Gerardo Fernández Juárez focuses on the violent ritual contexts of kharisiris among modern Aymara societies. The author links these rituals of ceremonial blood offering waxt'as and wilanchas, and mythical characters, to ancient cultural identity processes and to contemporary Aymara society.
El tercer artículo de Gerardo Fernández Juárez, de corte antropológico, trata sobre los kharisiris y su contexto de violencia ritual que vincula a procesos antiguos de identidad cultural de las sociedades aymara contemporáneas.