ISBN:
9783110821031
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3110821036
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiii, 276 pages)
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illustrations.
Edition:
[S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library
Series Statement:
World anthropology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Spirits, shamans, and stars
DDC:
306.4
Keywords:
Indians of South America Congresses
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Medicine
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Indians of South America Congresses
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Religion
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Shamanism Congresses
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South America
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Ethnologie Amérique du Sud
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Chamanisme Amérique du Sud
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Astrologie
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Anthropologie médicale
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Indians of South America Congresses Religion
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Shamanism Congresses
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Indians of South America Congresses Medicine
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Shamanism
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Medicine, Traditional
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Indians, South American
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Indians of South America ; Medicine
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Indians of South America ; Religion
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Shamanism
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Sjamanisme
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Drugs
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Geneeskunde
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Indianen
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Het Bovennatuurlijke
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Geschichte
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Magie
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Südamerika
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South America
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Electronic books Conference papers and proceedings
Abstract:
Creative Process in Ritual Art: Piaroa Indians, VenezuelaNot in Ourselves, But in Our Stars -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
Abstract:
General Editor�s Preface -- Preface -- General Introduction: “A Little Glass of Rum� -- PART ONE: PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS -- Introduction -- Magico-Religious Use of Tobacco Among South American Indians -- Coca and Popular Medicine in Peru: An Historical Analysis of Attitudes -- Was Espingo (Ispincu) of Psychotropic and Intoxicating Importance for the Shamans in Peru? -- Yagé Among the Siona: Cultural Patterns in Visions -- PART TWO: MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY -- Introduction -- Social and Medical Aspects of the Use of Cannabis in Brazil
Abstract:
Shamanism Among the Avá-ChiripáEffect of Rural-Urban Migration on Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Disease and Medicine in Southern Peru -- Learning of Psychodynamics, History, and Diagnosis Management Therapy by a Kali Cult Indigenous Healer in Guiana -- Effects of Behavioral and Ecological Variations upon the Incidence of Parasitic Disease Among la Gente of Conceptión, Peru -- PART THREE: SPIRITS, STRUCTURES, AND STARS -- Introduction -- Body and Spirit Among the Sanumá (Yanoama) of North Brazil -- A Peruvian Curandero�s Séance: Power and Balance
Note:
"The papers in this volume are an extension of the session Sociocultural Development and Economic Patterns in the Andes, held during the IXth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, September 1973. - Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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