Dark shamans : kanaimà and the poetics of violent death /
Uses an ethnographic example of ritual violence to illuminate cultural expression more widely and thereby reformulate anthropological and historical approaches to warfare and violence.
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
2002.
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Series: | e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction I
- 1. The Ethnographer's Tale
- i 2. Tales of the Kanaima: Observers 41
- 3. Tales of the Kanaima: Participants 88
- 4. Shamanic Warfare 128
- 5. Modernity, Development, and Kanaima Violence 174
- 6. Ritual Violence and Magical Death in Amazonia 202
- Conclusion: Anthropologies of Violence 245
- Notes 253.