The concept of appropriative acculturation unites the concepts of acculturation (sensu Aguirre Beltrán) and appropriation (sensu Bonfil Batalla), with the aim to comprehend the process which took Eastern Tepewa (Ma’álh’amá’) shamans to appropriate two Eastern Otomi (Ñühǘ) traditions for them to, on the one hand, start cutting paper figures without giving up their ancient tradition of binding...