The living ancestors : shamanism, cosmos and cultural change among the Yanomami of the upper Orinoco /
"This phenomenologically oriented ethnography focuses on experiential aspects of Yanomami shamanism, including shamanistic activities in the context of cultural change. The author interweaves ethnographic material with theoretical components of a holographic principle, or the idea that the ...
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New York ; Oxford :
Berghahn,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Life on top of the old sky: Yanomami habitat, ethnographic setting and local histories
- Inside the boa's abdomen: the Yanomami cosmos
- Hekura, the body and illness
- Hekuraprai: corporeal cosmogenesis
- Oneiric encounters
- Shamanic battlefield: the pendulum of life and death
- Two pathways to finding a cure: biomedical and shamanic treatment in the life of Yanomami
- Return of the ancestors: the all-pervading shawara, the end of the world and the beginning of a new epoch
- Postscript: Recent developments.
