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Signs of the Time: Kallawaya Medical Expertise and Social Reproduction in 21st Century Bolivia
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"While much recent scholarship ... on Kallawaya rituals, has drawn attention to the virtual disappearance of this code among practicing Kallawayas today, I found knowledge and use of Sejo/Machaj Juyay to be widely-distributed among healers, even if one’s individual competence was relatively shallow. (Because Kallawaya is a secret code of healers, and because degree of competence is difficult to assess, it is difficult to determine an exact number of speakers.)"

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2011

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Bolivia;

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100

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2010

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-15.1357,-69.1699

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Dormant

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No known L1 speakers

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"Ostensibly a specialized language used by successors to the herb doctors of Inca emperors. Probably extinct. Adult men only."

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2013

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Bolivia;

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"Highlands and high valleys, east Andes north of La Paz, Charazani area north of Lake Titicaca."

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"Highlands and high valleys, east Andes north of La Paz, Charazani area north of Lake Titicaca."

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2010

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-15.1357,-69.1699

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Critically Endangered

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Seriously endangered; almost extinct

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2012

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Bolivia

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