The book describes the tenfold gender in everyday life and in the rituals of Amarete, a village with Quechua-speaking Indians (Bolivia), and shows how concepts of the Andean religion entangle with parts of Christian religion and the symbolic genders during the collective agricultural rituals of the village.

The central characteristics of the Kallawaya culture are the rich traditional "white", "black" and "grey" healing rituals. They are deeply embedded in the Andean religion.