A doce sedução do ouro de Atahualpa: traições e desacordo sobre a voracidade das lagoas em Cajamarca, Peru

Relationships among the peasants and lagoons in rural communities situated northern Andes Peru are ambiguous. The lagoons, located at top of mountains, appear as ferocious entities stories local people. However, when these waters were threatened by a mining project, defended with their own lives. This work aims to analyse narratives concerning metamorphosis humans they seduced lagoons. paper is based on ethnographic research conducted between 2013 2014 village El Tambo, district Bambamarca, Hualgayoc Province, town Celendín, Celendín Province. Both localities within region Cajamarca Peruvian Andes. Besides this period research, new reports testimonies collected both during short visits 2016 2020. Certain categories, like wild/tame, sweet/savoury, voracious/self-controlled, essential analysis order understand relationship seduction beings that inhabit repudiation voracity open-pit mining.