UID:
almafu_9959677658502883
Format:
1 online resource (337 p.)
Content:
Ethnographic study of shamanism in lowland South America, analyzing the relations between the social, political, and historical dynamics of witchcraft and sorcery.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Introduction: Dark Shamanism, 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 & 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 Río Negro Region, Brazil, Dominique Buchillet
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The Glorious Tyranny of Silence and the Resonance of Shamanic Breath, George MentoreA Blend of Blood and Tobacco: Shamans and Jaguars among the Parakanã of Eastern Amazonia, Carlos Fausto; The Wars Within: Xinguano Witchcraft and Balance of Power, Michael Heckenberger; Siblings and Sorcerers: The Paradox of Kinship among the Kulina, Donald Pollock; Being Alone amid Others: Sorcery and Morality among the Arara, Carib, Brazil, Márnio Teixeira-Pinto; Sorcery and Shamanism in Cashinahua Discourse and Praxis, Purus River, Brazil, Elsje Lagrou
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The Enemy Within: Child Sorcery, Revolution, and the Evils of Modernization in Eastern Peru, Fernando Santos-GraneroCommentary, E. Jean Langdon; Afterword: Substances, Powers, Cosmos, and History, Andrew Strathern & Pamela J. Stewart; Contributors; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-3345-7
Language:
English
