| Description |
1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
Ethnographic study of shamanism in lowland South America, analyzing the relations between the social, political, and historical dynamics of witchcraft and sorcery |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Witchcraft -- Amazon River Region
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Magic -- Amazon River Region
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Magick Studies.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Witchcraft & Wicca.
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Magic
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Witchcraft
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Hekserij.
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Magie.
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Amazon River Region
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Whitehead, Neil L., editor.
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Wright, Robin, 1950- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780822385837 |
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082238583X |
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1282920553 |
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9781282920552 |
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9786612920554 |
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6612920556 |
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0822333333 |
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9780822333333 |
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