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Autore |
Whitehead Neil L |
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Titolo |
In Darkness and Secrecy [[electronic resource] ] : The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia |
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Durham, : Duke University Press, 2004 |
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1-282-92055-3 |
9786612920554 |
0-8223-8583-X |
0-8223-8430-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (337 p.) |
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Collana |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection. |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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WrightRobin |
WilbertJohannes |
VidalSilvia M |
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Disciplina |
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Social Sciences |
Parapsychology & Occult Sciences |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction: Dark Shamanism, 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 & 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 Río Negro Region, Brazil, Dominique Buchillet |
The Glorious Tyranny of Silence and the Resonance of Shamanic Breath, George MentoreA Blend of Blood and Tobacco: Shamans and Jaguars among the Parakanã of Eastern Amazonia, Carlos Fausto; The Wars Within: Xinguano Witchcraft and Balance of Power, Michael Heckenberger; Siblings and Sorcerers: The Paradox of Kinship among the Kulina, Donald Pollock; Being Alone amid Others: Sorcery and Morality among the Arara, Carib, Brazil, Márnio Teixeira-Pinto; Sorcery and Shamanism in Cashinahua Discourse and Praxis, Purus River, Brazil, |
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Elsje Lagrou |
The Enemy Within: Child Sorcery, Revolution, and the Evils of Modernization in Eastern Peru, Fernando Santos-GraneroCommentary, E. Jean Langdon; Afterword: Substances, Powers, Cosmos, and History, Andrew Strathern & Pamela J. Stewart; Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Ethnographic study of shamanism in lowland South America, analyzing the relations between the social, political, and historical dynamics of witchcraft and sorcery. |
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