In Darkness and Secrecy [[electronic resource] ] : The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia
(Visualizza in formato marc)
(Visualizza in BIBFRAME)
| Autore: |
Whitehead Neil L
|
| Titolo: |
In Darkness and Secrecy [[electronic resource] ] : The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia
|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.