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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969053203321

Autore

Whitehead Neil L

Titolo

Dark shamans : kanaima and the poetics of violent death / / Neil L. Whitehead

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, N.C., : Duke University Press, 2002

ISBN

9786612920554

9780822384304

0822384302

9780822329886

0822329883

9781282920552

1282920553

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Collana

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Disciplina

133.4/3/09811

Soggetti

Patamona Indians - Rites and ceremonies

Patamona Indians - Death

Macusi Indians - Rites and ceremonies

Macusi Indians - Death

Violent deaths - Guyana - Paramakatoi Region

Shamanism - Guyana - Paramakatoi Region

Witchcraft - Guyana - Paramakatoi Region

Ritual abuse - Guyana - Paramakatoi Region

Paramakatoi Region (Guyana) Rites and ceremonies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-298) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The Ethnographer's Tale -- 2. Tales of the Kanaima: Observers -- 3. Tales of the Kanaima: Participants -- 4. Shamanic Warfare -- 5. Modernity, Development, and Kanaima Violence -- 6. Ritual Violence and Magical Death in Amazonia -- Conclusion: Anthropologies of Violence.

Sommario/riassunto

Ethnographic study of shamanism in lowland South America, analyzing the relations between the social, political, and historical dynamics of



witchcraft and sorcery.