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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785614103321

Titolo

Spirits, shamans, and stars : perspectives from South America / / editors, David L. Browman, Ronald A. Schwarz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

The Hague ; ; New York : , : Mouton, , 1979

ISBN

3-11-082103-6

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 pages)

Collana

World Anthropology

Classificazione

LC 56645

Altri autori (Persone)

BrowmanDavid L

SchwarzRonald A

Disciplina

306/.4

Soggetti

Indians of South America - Medicine

Indians of South America - Religion

Shamanism - South America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The papers in this volume are an extension of the session Sociocultural Development and Economic Patterns in the Andes, held during the IXth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, September 1973".

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- General Introduction: "A Little Glass of Rum" / BROWMAN, DAVID L. / SCHWARZ, RONALD A. -- PART ONE: Perspectives on Psychotropic Drugs -- Introduction / BROWMAN, DAVID L. / SCHWARZ, RONALD A. -- Magico-Religious Use of Tobacco Among South American Indians / WILBERT, JOHANNES -- Coca and Popular Medicine in Peru: An Historical Analysis of Attitudes / GAGLIANO, JOSEPH A. -- Was Espingo (Ispincu) of Psychotropic and Intoxicating Importance for the Shamans in Peru? / WASSEN, S. HENRY -- Yagé Among the Siona: Cultural Patterns in Visions / LANGDON, E. JEAN -- PART TWO: Medical Anthropology -- Introduction / BROWMAN, DAVID L. / SCHWARZ, RONALD A. -- Social and Medical Aspects of the Use of Cannabis in Brazil / DE PINHO, ALVARO RUBIM -- Shamanism Among the Avá-Chiripá / BARTOLOME, MIGUEL ALBERTO -- Effect of Rural-Urban Migration on Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Disease and Medicine in Southern Peru / QUINTANILLA, A. -- Learning of Psychodynamics, History, and Diagnosis Management Therapy by a Kali Cult Indigenous Healer in Guiana / SINGER, PHILIP / ARANETA, ENRIQUE / NAIDOO, JAMSIE -- Effects of Behavioral and Ecological Variations



upon the Incidence of Parasitic Disease Among la Gente of Conception, Peru / McDANIEL,, JOHN M. / HARRIS, H. WILLIAM JR. / KATZ, SOLOMON Η. -- PART THREE: Spirits, Structures, and Stars -- Introduction / BROWMAN, DAVID L. / SCHWARZ, RONALD A. -- Body and Spirit Among the Sanumá (Yanoama) of North Brazil / TAYLOR, KENNETH I. -- A Peruvian Curandero's Séance: Power and Balance / SHARON, DOUGLAS -- Creative Process in Ritual Art: Piaroa Indians, Venezuela / BOGLÁR, LAJOS -- Not in Ourselves, But in Our Stars / DUMONT, JEAN-PAUL -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects