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In Darkness and Secrecy [[electronic resource] ] : The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia



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Autore: Whitehead Neil L Visualizza persona
Titolo: In Darkness and Secrecy [[electronic resource] ] : The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Durham, : Duke University Press, 2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
Disciplina: 133.4/3/09811
Soggetto topico: Social Sciences
Parapsychology & Occult Sciences
Altri autori: WrightRobin  
WilbertJohannes  
VidalSilvia M  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction: Dark Shamanism, Neil L. Whitehead and Robin Wright; The Order of Dark Shamans among the Warao, Johannes Wilbert; Dark Shamans and the Shamanic State: Sorcery and Witchcraft as Political Process in Guyana and the Venezuelan Amazon, Silvia Vidal & Neil L. Whitehead; The Wicked and the Wise Men: Witches and Prophets in the History of the Northwest Amazon, Robin Wright; Sorcery Beliefs, Transmission of Shamanic Knowledge, and Therapeutic Practice among the Desana of the Upper Río Negro Region, Brazil, Dominique Buchillet
The Glorious Tyranny of Silence and the Resonance of Shamanic Breath, George MentoreA Blend of Blood and Tobacco: Shamans and Jaguars among the Parakanã of Eastern Amazonia, Carlos Fausto; The Wars Within: Xinguano Witchcraft and Balance of Power, Michael Heckenberger; Siblings and Sorcerers: The Paradox of Kinship among the Kulina, Donald Pollock; Being Alone amid Others: Sorcery and Morality among the Arara, Carib, Brazil, Márnio Teixeira-Pinto; Sorcery and Shamanism in Cashinahua Discourse and Praxis, Purus River, Brazil, Elsje Lagrou
The Enemy Within: Child Sorcery, Revolution, and the Evils of Modernization in Eastern Peru, Fernando Santos-GraneroCommentary, E. Jean Langdon; Afterword: Substances, Powers, Cosmos, and History, Andrew Strathern & Pamela J. Stewart; Contributors; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Ethnographic study of shamanism in lowland South America, analyzing the relations between the social, political, and historical dynamics of witchcraft and sorcery.
Titolo autorizzato: In Darkness and Secrecy  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-92055-3
9786612920554
0-8223-8583-X
0-8223-8430-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910777994703321
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