Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon /

Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon tells the life story of Mandu da Silva, the last living jaguar shaman among the Baniwa peoples in the northwest Amazon. In this highly original and engaging work, Robin M. Wright, who has known and worked with Silva for more than thirty years,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wright, Robin, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
da Silva, Mandu.
Da Silva, Mandu.
Oral history
Schamanismus
Baniwa
Shamans.
Baniwa philosophy.
Baniwa Indians > Religion.
Baniwa Indians.
Baniwa (Indiens) > Rites et ceremonies.
Philosophie baniwa.
Baniwa (Indiens) > Religion.
Baniwa (Indiens) > Biographies.
Baniwa Indians > Rites and ceremonies.
Shamans > Brazil > Biography.
Baniwa Indians > Biography.
Brazil.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon tells the life story of Mandu da Silva, the last living jaguar shaman among the Baniwa peoples in the northwest Amazon. In this highly original and engaging work, Robin M. Wright, who has known and worked with Silva for more than thirty years, weaves the story of Silva's life together with the Baniwas' society, history, mythology, cosmology, and jaguar shaman traditions. The jaguar shamans are key players in what Wright calls "a nexus of religious power and knowledge" in which healers, sorcerers, priestly chanters, and dance-leaders exercise complementary functions linking living specialists with the deities and great spirits of the cosmos. By exploring in depth the apprenticeship of the shaman, Wright shows how jaguar shamans acquire the knowledge and power of the deities in several stages of instruction and practice. This volume is the first mapping of the sacred geography ("mythscape") of the Northern Arawak-speaking people of the northwest Amazon, demonstrating direct connections between petroglyphs and other inscriptions and Baniwa sacred narratives as a whole. In eloquent and engaging analytic prose, Wright links biographic and ethnographic elements in elevating anthropological writing to a new standard of theoretically aware storytelling and analytic power--Back cover.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (424 pages): illustrations, map ;
ISBN:9780803246812

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