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In this interview we discuss Ortner's academic and personal life, from her initial fieldwork experiences to her current research on the Hollywood industry, including her interests in feminist anthropology and her work on capitalism and social change. We had the opportunity to meet both a brilliant anthropologist and a joyful person.

This article explores the role that repetition plays in symbolic healing through a close examination of the speech patterns and actions performed by a healer in a Chol Maya ritual aimed at curing a woman of kisiñ—the “embarrassment‐sickness.” The authors examine the repetition of speech patterns in the healing chant and the frequency with which other paralinguistic elements, such as taps, co‐occur with the chant verses. The sound patterns generated during the ritual, specifically those created by the rhythmic tapping of the patient's body with a bough bouquet, are yet another form of repetition often overlooked in analyses of healing rituals, which have concentrated on other symbolic elements used by healers. It is argued that the repetition of phrases in parallel verses serves as metapragmatic commentary on the healing process as a restructuring of the patient's body, which has been unstructured by the disease.

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During the last meeting of the SEAA, Granada 2002, the society AIBR presented a paper related to the professional communication in anthropology and the use of new technologies (Bezos-Daleske, 2005). This society has intended to create a space in which professionals of our discipline may exchange and communicate in Spanish. In addition, the society AIBR has served as support of projects of applied anthropology, both in public institutions and private companies, as well as health centres. This paper summarizes a four years experience in the 1 El presente texto puede ser discutido y editado por los lectores en la dirección http://0201sinergia.wikispaces.com/. La primera versión de este artículo fue presentada en el VII