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The living ancestors : shamanism, cosmos and culture change among the Yanomami of the upper Orinoco / / by Zeljko Jokic



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Autore: Jokic Zeljko Visualizza persona
Titolo: The living ancestors : shamanism, cosmos and culture change among the Yanomami of the upper Orinoco / / by Zeljko Jokic Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
Disciplina: 305.898/92087
Soggetto topico: Yanomamo Indians - Religion
Yanomamo mythology
Shamanism - 87 (Venezuela and Colombia)
Soggetto non controllato: 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
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: This 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The living ancestors  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78238-818-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910797894803321
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