Unknown Huichol : Shamans and immortals, allies against chaos / / Jay Courtney Fikes

• Autore: Fikes Jay C (Jay Courtney), <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (294 p.)
• Disciplina: 299.7/84544
• Soggetto topico: Huichol mythology; Huichol cosmology; Huichol Indians - Religion; Shamanism - Mexico; Symbolic anthropology - Mexico
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-269) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Confessions of a Hybrid Anthropologist; Chapter 2: Shamanic Initiation and Ancestor Veneration; Chapter 3: Entering the Afterlife; Chapter 4: Interdependence and Continuity in Huichol Cosmology; Chapter 5: Seeking Sacred Indexes to Celebrate Life's Logos; Postscript; Appendix A: A Huichol Woman's Burial; Appendix B: Funeral Ritual Song Excerpts; Appendix C: Deer-Hunting and Reincarnating Rituals; Appendix D: Death and Mourning among the Huichol; Notes; References; Index; About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: The culmination of 34 years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, this book offers ground-breaking insights into fundamental principles of Huichol shamanism and ritual. The scope and length of Fikes's research, combined with the depth of his participation with four Huichol shamans, enable him to convey with empathy details of shamanic initiation, methods for diagnosis and treatment of illness, and motives for performing funeral, deer and peyote hunting, and maize-cultivating rituals.
• Titolo autorizzato: Unknown Huichol
• ISBN: 0-7591-2028-5; 0-7591-2027-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815810603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II