Whitehead / Wright In Darkness and Secrecy

The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8583-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

Ethnographic study of shamanism in lowland South America, analyzing the relations between the social, political, and historical dynamics of witchcraft and sorcery.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whitehead, Neil L.

Wright, Robin

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wilbert, Johannes

Vidal, Silvia M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Dark Shamanism / Neil L. Whitehead and Robin Wright 1

The Order of Dark Shamans among the Warao / Johannes Wilbert 21

Dark Shamans and the Shamanic State: Sorcery and Witchcraft as Political Process in Guyana and the Venezuelan Amazon / Silvia Vidal and Neil L. Whitehead 51

The Wicked and the Wise Men: Witches and Prophets in the History of the Northwest Amazon / Robin Wright 82

Sorcery Beliefs, Transmissions of Shamanic Knowledge, and Therapeutic Practice among the Desana of the Upper Rio Negro Region, Brazil / Dominique Buchillet 109

The Glorious Tyranny of Silence and the Resonance of Shamanic Breath / George Mentore 132

A Blend of Blood and Tobacco: Shamans and Jaguars among the Parakana of Eastern Amazonia / Carlos Fausto 157

The Wars Within: Xinguano Witchcraft and Balance of Power / Michael Heckenberger 179

Siblings and Sorcerers: The Paradox of Kinship among the Kulina / Donald Pollock 202

Being Alone amid Others: Sorcery and Morality among the Arara, Carib, Brazil / Marnio Teixeira-Pinto 215

Sorcery and Shamanism in Cashinahua Discourse and Praxis, Purus River, Brazil / Elsje Lagrou 244

The Enemy Within: Child Sorcery, Revolution, and the Evils of Modernization in Eastern Peru / Fernando Santos-Granero 272

Commentary / E. Jean Langdon 306

Afterword: Substances, Powers, Cosmos, and History / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart 314

Contributors 321

Index 324

Über Autor(innen)

Neil L. Whitehead is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Among his most recent books are Dark Shamans: Kanaimà and the Poetics of Violent Death (published by Duke University Press) and Beyond the Visible and the Material: The Amerindianization of Society in the Work of Peter Rivière (coedited with Laura Rival).Robin Wright is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Research in Indigenous Ethnology at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas in Brazil. He is the author of Cosmos, Self, and History in Baniwa Religion: For Those Unborn and the editor of several books in Spanish.