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Non-humans in Amerindian South America : ethnographies of indigenous cosmologies, rituals and songs /

"Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies whose lives and worlds are undergoing processes of transformation, adaptation, and deterioration, this volume offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South Americ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rivera Andía, Juan Javier (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2022.
Edición:First paperback edition.
Colección:EASA series ; v. 37.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies whose lives and worlds are undergoing processes of transformation, adaptation, and deterioration, this volume offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands. The resulting ethnographies - depicting non-human entities emerging in ritual, oral tradition, cosmology, shamanism and music - explore the conditions and effects of unequally ranked life forms, increased extraction of resources, continuous migration to urban centers, and the (usually) forced incorporation of current expressions of modernity into indigenous societies"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 382 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781789200980
1789200989