04293nam 2200913 450 991080818450332120170919032844.01-78238-818-410.1515/9781782388180(CKB)3710000000493949(EBL)4014249(SSID)ssj0001570670(PQKBManifestationID)16219412(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001570670(PQKBWorkID)12754757(PQKB)10072555(MiAaPQ)EBC4014249(DE-B1597)636352(DE-B1597)9781782388180(EXLCZ)99371000000049394920150424d2015 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe living ancestors shamanism, cosmos and culture change among the Yanomami of the upper Orinoco /by Zeljko JokicNew York ;Oxford :Berghahn Books,2015.1 online resource (296 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-78238-817-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- The master shapori Ruweweriwë and his disciple Arawë singing in front of the ceremonial mast – Mountain of the ancestral hekura spirits -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Life on Top of the Old Sky: Yanomami Habitat, Ethnographic Setting and Local Histories -- Chapter 2. Inside the Boa’s Abdomen: The Yanomami Cosmos -- Chapter 3. Hekura, the Body and Illness -- Chapter 4. Hekuraprai: Corporeal Cosmogenesis -- Chapter 5. Oneiric Encounters -- Chapter 6. Shamanic Battlefield: The Pendulum of Life and Death -- Chapter 7. Two Pathways to Finding a Cure: Biomedical and Shamanic Treatment in the Life of Yanomami -- Chapter 8. Return of the Ancestors: The All-pervading Shawara, the End of the World and the Beginning of a New Epoch -- Postscript. Recent Developments -- Glossary of Yanomami Terms -- Bibliography -- IndexThis phenomenologically oriented ethnography focuses on experiential aspects of Yanomami shamanism, including shamanistic activities in the context of cultural change. The author interweaves ethnographic material with theoretical components of a holographic principle, or the idea that the “part is equal to the whole,” which is embedded in the nature of the Yanomami macrocosm, human dwelling, multiple-soul components, and shamans’ relationships with embodied spirit-helpers. This book fills an important gap in the regional study of Yanomami people, and, on a broader scale, enriches understanding of this ancient phenomenon by focusing on the consciousness involved in shamanism through firsthand experiential involvement.Yanomamo IndiansReligionYanomamo mythologyShamanism87 (Venezuela and Colombia)ancient phenomenon.anthropology.biomedicine.cosmology.cultural change.disease.dreams.engaging.ethnographic material.fieldwork.firsthand experiential involvement.healing.holographic principle.illness.indigenous people.indigenous studies.initiatory ordeal.native religions.origin myths.page turner.regional study.shamanism.shamanistic activities.social science.sociology of religion.spirit helpers.spiritual.unexplained phenomena.villages.yanomami shamanism.Yanomamo IndiansReligion.Yanomamo mythology.Shamanism305.898/92087Jokic Zeljko1649155MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808184503321The living ancestors3997753UNINA