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In darkness and secrecy : the anthropology of assault sorcery and witchcraft in Amazonia /
Ethnographic study of shamanism in lowland South America, analyzing the relations between the social, political, and historical dynamics of witchcraft and sorcery.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.