Amerindian Socio-Cosmologies between the Andes, Amazonia and Mesoamerica

Toward an Anthropological Understanding of the Isthmo-Colombian Area
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-17592-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 372 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 565 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

This book offers a new anthropological understanding of the socio-cosmological and ontological characteristics of the Isthmo–Colombian Area, beyond established theories for Amazonia, the Andes and Mesoamerica.

It focuses on a core region that has been largely neglected by comparative anthropology in recent decades. Centering on relations between Chibchan groups and their neighbors, the contributions consider prevailing socio-cosmological principles and their relationship to Amazonian animism and Mesoamerican and Andean analogism. Classical notions of area homogeneity are reconsidered and the book formulates an overarching proposal for how to make sense of the heterogeneity of the region’s indigenous groups. Drawing on original fieldwork and comparative analysis, the volume provides a valuable anthropological addition to archaeological and linguistic knowledge of the Isthmo·Colombian Area.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Halbmayer, Ernst

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I The Isthmo–Colombian Area in context 1 Introduction: toward an anthropological understanding of the area between the Andes, Mesoamerica, and the Amazon Ernst HalbmayerPART II Conceptualizing the Isthmo–Colombian Area from a regional comparative perspective 2 An Amerindian humanism: order and transformation in Chibchan universes Juan Camilo Nino Vargas3 Languages of the Isthmo–Colombian Area and its southeastern borderland: Chibchan, Chocoan, Yukpa, and Wayuunaiki Matthias Pache, Sergio Meira, and Colette Grinevald4 Kinship, clanship, and hierarchy in the Isthmo–Colombian Area Ernst Halbmayer5 Between Mesoamerica, the Central Andes, and Amazonia: area conceptions, chronologies, and history Christiane Clados and Ernst Halbmayer6 The golden ones: the human body as reflective metallic surface in the Isthmo–Colombian Area Christiane CladosPART III Case studies: change and continuity in shamanic and priestly practices and the conception of things, humans, plants, and animals 7 Parents who own lives: relations and persons among the I’ku, a Chibchan group in Colombia Jose Arenas Gomez8 Tuwancha, "the One Who Knows": specialists and specialized knowledge in transhuman communication among the SokorpaYukpa of the Serranía del Perijá, Colombia Anne Goletz9 The Wounaan haaihí je¨eu n¿m ritual with the k'ugwiu: reinforcing benevolence and preventing calamity Chindio Pena Ismare, Julia Velasquez Runk, Rito Ismare Pena, and Chenier Carpio Opua10 Things, life, and humans in Guna Yala (Panama): talking about molagana and nudsugana inside and outside Guna society Monica Martinez Mauri11 Plant ontologies among the Bribri of Talamanca, Costa Rica Schabnam Kaviany12 The place of livestock in human-non-human relationship among the Wayuu Alessandro Mancuso13 Murderous spirits: shamanic interpretation of armed violence, suicide, and exhumation in the economy of death of the Emberá (Chocó, Antioquia, Colombia) Anne-Marie Losonczy

Über Autor(innen)

Ernst Halbmayer is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Institute for Comparative Cultural Research, University of Marburg, Germany.