Whitehead Dark Shamans

Kanaimà and the Poetics of Violent Death
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8430-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 324 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

Uses an ethnographic example of ritual violence to illuminate cultural expression more widely and thereby reformulate anthropological and historical approaches to warfare and violence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whitehead, Neil L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. The Ethnographer's Tale 11

2. Tales of the Kanaima: Observers 41

3. Tales of the Kanaima: Participants 88

4. Shamanic Warfare 128

5. Modernity, Development, and Kanaima Violence 174

6. Ritual Violence and Magical Death in Amazonia 202

Conclusion: Anthropologies of Violence 245

Notes 253

Works Cited 285

Index 299

Über Autor(innen)

Neil L. Whitehead is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author and editor of numerous books, most recently Beyond the Visible and the Material: The Amerindianization of Society in the Work of Peter Rivière (coedited with Laura Rival) and War in the Tribal Zone: Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare (coedited with R. B. Ferguson). He is the editor of the journal Ethnohistory.