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

• Autore: Jokic Zeljko
• 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
• ISBN: 1-78238-818-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808184503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II