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This study uses the psychoanalytic theory of folkloristics to develop the claim that international rainbow-serpent folklore is ubiquitously associated with incest and incest-related diseases. Using original fieldwork (conducted among indigenous Andean Quechua speakers) as an in-…

Institutions have long been considered an important unit of analysis in sociological inquiry, despite the relative ambiguity surrounding their definition and dynamics. The dissertation below offers an integrative definition of what an institution is and turns our focus towards t…