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Produktbild: The Living Ancestors

The Living Ancestors Shamanism, Cosmos and Cultural Change among the Yanomami of the Upper Orinoco

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Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

01.09.2015

Abbildungen

Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert

Verlag

Ingram Publishers Services

Seitenzahl

296

Maße (L/B/H)

23.5/15.7/2.1 cm

Gewicht

567 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-78238-817-3

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

01.09.2015

Abbildungen

Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert

Verlag

Ingram Publishers Services

Seitenzahl

296

Maße (L/B/H)

23.5/15.7/2.1 cm

Gewicht

567 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-78238-817-3

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

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  • Produktbild: The Living Ancestors

  • List of Illustrations
    Preface and Acknowledgements

    Introduction

    • Shamanism: Origins and Key Features
    • Yanomami Shamanism: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
    • The Book's Subject Matter and its Guiding Principles
    • Fieldwork Setting and Methodology
    • The Book's Outline

    Chapter 1. Life on Top of the Old Sky: Yanomami Habitat, Ethnographic Setting and Local Histories

    • Yanomami Habitat
    • Historical Migratory Movements and Encounters
    • The Sweeping Winds of Change and its Consequences
    • Platanal and Sheroana-theri at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

    Chapter 2. Inside the Boa's Abdomen: The Yanomami Cosmos

    • Holographic Totality of the Yanomami Cosmos
    • No Patapi tëhë: The Ever-present Mythical Time of Creation
    • Origin Myths

    Chapter 3. Hekura, Body and Illness

    • Shamans and Hekura
    • Epena: Transformative Substance and Aliment for Hekura
    • Shamanism in Myths and in Contemporary Context
    • Yanomami Conception of a Person and Causes of Illness

    Chapter 4. Hekuraprai: Corporeal Cosmogenesis

    • Summary of the Initiatory Ordeal
    • Transformation into Hekura: Day-by-Day Process
    • Cosmic Body and its Dynamism
    • First Trance: Re-experience of Death and the Beginning of Hekuramou

    Chapter 5. Oneiric Encounters

    • Hekuramou and Expansion of Shamanistic Powers
    • Dreams and Shamanism
    • Dream Lucidity and the Transitional States of Dream Consciousness
    • Dreams, Illness and Healing

    Chapter 6. Shamanic Battlefield: The Pendulum of Life and Death

    • Shapori's New Identity and Social Obligation on the Intracommunal Level
    • The Dialectics between Defensive and Offensive Hekuramou
    • Body Intrusion and the Dynamics of the Cosmic Flow
    • Shaporimou and Intersubjective Knowledge Diffusion

    Chapter 7. Two Pathways to Curing and in Between: Biomedical and Shamanic Treatment in the Life of Yanomami

    • Shamanism and Biomedicine: Compatibility and Differences
    • Dynamics of Doctor-Shapori-Patient Interaction
    • Yanomami Responses to Diarrhoea, Malaria and Respiratory Infections

    Chapter 8. Return of the Ancestors: The All-pervading Shawara, The End of the World and the Beginning of a New Epoch

    • The Origin of Shawara Epidemics
    • Further Expansion of the Shawara Concept
    • The End of the World and the Beginning of Another Cosmic Cycle

    Postscript: Recent Developments

    Glossary of Yanomami Terms
    Bibliography
    Index