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In darkness and secrecy : the anthropology of assault sorcery and witchcraft in Amazonia / edited by Neil L. Whitehead and Robin Wright.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2004Description: 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0822333333
  • 9780822333333
  • 0822333457
  • 9780822333456
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 133.4309811 22
LOC classification:
  • BF1566 .I5 2004
Contents:
Introduction : dark shamanism / 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 Parakana of Eastern Amazonia / Carlos Fausto -- The wars within : Xinguano witchcraft and balance of power / Michael Heckenberger -- Siblings and sorcerers : the paradox of kinship among the Kulina / Donald Pollock -- Being alone amid others : sorcery and morality among the Arara, Carib, Brazil / Marnio 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 -- Commentary / E. Jean Langdon -- Afterword : substances, powers, cosmos, and history / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : dark shamanism / 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 Parakana of Eastern Amazonia / Carlos Fausto -- The wars within : Xinguano witchcraft and balance of power / Michael Heckenberger -- Siblings and sorcerers : the paradox of kinship among the Kulina / Donald Pollock -- Being alone amid others : sorcery and morality among the Arara, Carib, Brazil / Marnio 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 -- Commentary / E. Jean Langdon -- Afterword : substances, powers, cosmos, and history / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart.

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