Animal rearing, hunting and sacrifice in the high Andes, ancient and modern: a comparative perspective: A common idea in the Andean region is that rituals to the mountains are part of a social contract between local populations and these powerful places, directed towards stabilising ecological systems and controlling resource management in their surrounding areas. But mountains also serve as a crucial point of reference for superhuman powers, to constrain the extent of human intervention in a certain environment, and respond to the excessive abuse of extracting too many minerals, or too many animals or plants, by devouring the humans within its domain. This indigenous Andean deontics and its history, is my interest here. Correspondences between contemporary Aymara and the uywiri-mountains (Bolivia): In my talk I will share some experiences about how Andean families relate with uywiri-mountains, seen from the perspective of an anthropology of life, which I conceive as the study of the sympoiesis between human and other-than-human becomings and presences. I draw upon Ingold’s recent writings about correspondence and attentionality in order to study, together with the Aymara relatives, how the uywiri can be said to raise, protect and educate people and how they are, in turn, visited by humans in intense and respectful ways. These corresponding dynamics however are not void of contradictions and frictions, both local and global.