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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Illustrations; List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Towards Engaged Ontographies of Animist Developments in Amerindian South America; Juan Javier Rivera Andía Part I: Securing Body and Wealth Chapter 1. On The Wings of Inspiration: Ritual Efficacy, Dancing Flamingos and Divine Mediation Among Pastoralists and Herd Animals in Isluga,
  • Chile; Penelope Dransart Chapter 2. Southern Sacrifice and Northern Sorcery: Mountain Spirits and Encantos in the Peruvian Andes; Marieka Sax Chapter 3. Marking Out the Bounds of Humanity in Tsachila Ritual; Montserrat Ventura I Oller Chapter 4. Losing Part of Oneself: Channels of Communication Between Humans and Non-Humans Revealed by a Therapeutic Treatment of Terror Illness Called Susto (Andean Foothills of Apolo in Bolivia); Francis Ferrié Part II: Cohabitation and Sharing Chapter 5. The Inkas Still Exist in the Ucayali Valley or What Can We Learn from Songs; Bernd Brabec de Mori Chapter 6. On Quechua Relatedness to Contemporary and Ancient Dead; Guillermo Salas Carreño Chapter 7. "I'm Crying for the Beautiful Skin of the Jaguar": Laments,
  • Non-Humans and Conviviality Among the Ayoreo of the Northern Chaco; Alfonso Otaegui Chapter 8. Substantiated Wealth: Morality, Local Economy and the Body in Indigenous Amazonia; Minna Opas Part III: Transformations and Slow Turbulences Chapter 9. Signifying Others: The Musical Management of Social Differences in Amazonia; Jonathan Hill Chapter 10. Inventing a New Verbal Art from Traditional Issues: The Evangelical Songs of the Suruí of Rondônia; Cédric Yvinec Chapter 11. Prosperity and the Flow of Vital Substances: Relating to Earth Beings in Processes of Mobility in the Southern Peruvian Andes; Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard Epilogue: The Wild Boar is Out Again and Knows Better than the Jaguar; Mark Münzel Bibliography; Index