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The name “hijadelacoca” condenses an Andean ritual genealogy. Of Aymara descent through her paternal line, her great-grandfather, originally from Huancané, Puno, belonged to a lineage of coca leaf readers, an ancestral practice of divination and spiritual guidance. This knowledge, transmitted to her father, extends to other southern Andean rituals —mesadas, healing baths, and limpias— that intertwine cure and collective energy. The artist acknowledges herself as an apprentice of this living tradition under her father’s guidance, also present in the celebrations of the Virgin of the Rosary of Huancané. By naming herself “hijadelacoca,” she reinscribes a heritage of multiple immaterial cultural resistanceswithin her practice.