Format:
1 online resource (327 p.)
ISBN:
9780822385837
,
082238583X
Content:
The anthropology of assault sorcery and witchcraft / Neil L. Whitehead and Robin Wright -- The order of dark shamans among the Warao / Johannes Wilbert -- Dark shamans and the shamanic state : sorcery and witchcraft as political process in Guyana and the Venezuelan Amazon / Silvia Vidal and Neil L. Whitehead -- The wicked and the wise men : witches and prophets in the history of the Northwest Amazon / Robin Wright -- Sorcery beliefs, transmission of shamanic knowledge, and therapeutic practice among the Desana of the Upper Rio Negro Region, Brazil / Dominique Buchillet -- The glorious tyranny of silence and the resonance of shamanic breath / George Mentore -- A blend of blood and tobacco : shamans and jaguars among the Parakan of Eastern Amazonia / Carlos Fausto -- The wars within Xinguano witchcraft and the balance of power / Michael Heckenberger -- Siblings and sorcerers : the paradox of kinship among the Kulina / Don Pollock -- Being alone amid others : sorcery and morality amongst the Arara, Carib, Brazil / Nio Teixeira Pinto -- Sorcery and shamanism in Cashinahua discourse and praxis, Purus River, Brazil / Elsje Lagrou -- The enemy within : child sorcery, revolution, and the evils of modernization in Eastern Peru / Fernando Santos-Granero.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe In darkness and secrecy Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2004 ISBN 9780822333456
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0822333333
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0822333457
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Amazonastiefland
;
Schamanismus
;
Hexerei
;
Electronic books
;
Bibliografie
DOI:
10.1215/9780822385837
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822385837?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822385837
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822385837
Author information:
Wright, Robin 1966-
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