ISBN:
9780822333456
,
0822333333
,
0822333457
Language:
English
Pages:
327 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst. Kt.
,
24 cm
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Irvin, Jan Review: In Darkness and Secrecy: The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia, by Neil L. Whitehead and Robin Wright 2010
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als In darkness and secrecy
DDC:
133.4309811
Keywords:
Witchcraft Amazon River Region
;
Magic Amazon River Region
;
Bibliografie
;
Amazonastiefland
;
Schamanismus
;
Hexerei
Description / Table of Contents:
The anthropology of assault sorcery and witchcraft / 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 and 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 Rio Negro Region, Brazil / Dominique Buchillet -- The glorious tyranny of silence and the resonance of shamanic breath / George Mentore -- A blend of blood and tobacco : shamans and jaguars among the Parakan of Eastern Amazonia / Carlos Fausto -- The wars within Xinguano witchcraft and the balance of power / Michael Heckenberger -- Siblings and sorcerers : the paradox of kinship among the Kulina / Don Pollock -- Being alone amid others : sorcery and morality amongst the Arara, Carib, Brazil / Nio 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-Granero
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Formerly CIP
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0412/2003026535.html
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