Non-humans in Amerindian South America : ethnographies of indigenous cosmologies, rituals and songs /
Non-humans in Amerindian South America : ethnographies of indigenous cosmologies, rituals and songs /
edited by Juan Javier Rivera And�ia.
- First paperback edition.
- 1 online resource (xi, 382 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- EASA series ; 37 .
- EASA series ; v. 37. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Illustrations; List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Towards Engaged Ontographies of Animist Developments in Amerindian South America; Juan Javier Rivera And�ia Part I: Securing Body and Wealth Chapter 1. On The Wings of Inspiration: Ritual Efficacy, Dancing Flamingos and Divine Mediation Among Pastoralists and Herd Animals in Isluga, Chile; Penelope Dransart Chapter 2. Southern Sacrifice and Northern Sorcery: Mountain Spirits and Encantos in the Peruvian Andes; Marieka Sax Chapter 3. Marking Out the Bounds of Humanity in Tsachila Ritual; Montserrat Ventura I Oller Chapter 4. Losing Part of Oneself: Channels of Communication Between Humans and Non-Humans Revealed by a Therapeutic Treatment of Terror Illness Called Susto (Andean Foothills of Apolo in Bolivia); Francis Ferri�e Part II: Cohabitation and Sharing Chapter 5. The Inkas Still Exist in the Ucayali Valley or What Can We Learn from Songs; Bernd Brabec de Mori Chapter 6. On Quechua Relatedness to Contemporary and Ancient Dead; Guillermo Salas Carre�no Chapter 7. "I'm Crying for the Beautiful Skin of the Jaguar": Laments, Non-Humans and Conviviality Among the Ayoreo of the Northern Chaco; Alfonso Otaegui Chapter 8. Substantiated Wealth: Morality, Local Economy and the Body in Indigenous Amazonia; Minna Opas Part III: Transformations and Slow Turbulences Chapter 9. Signifying Others: The Musical Management of Social Differences in Amazonia; Jonathan Hill Chapter 10. Inventing a New Verbal Art from Traditional Issues: The Evangelical Songs of the Suru�i of Rond�onia; C�edric Yvinec Chapter 11. Prosperity and the Flow of Vital Substances: Relating to Earth Beings in Processes of Mobility in the Southern Peruvian Andes; Cecilie Vindal �degaard Epilogue: The Wild Boar is Out Again and Knows Better than the Jaguar; Mark M�unzel Bibliography; Index
"Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies whose lives and worlds are undergoing processes of transformation, adaptation, and deterioration, this volume offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands. The resulting ethnographies - depicting non-human entities emerging in ritual, oral tradition, cosmology, shamanism and music - explore the conditions and effects of unequally ranked life forms, increased extraction of resources, continuous migration to urban centers, and the (usually) forced incorporation of current expressions of modernity into indigenous societies"--
9781789200980 1789200989
22573/ctvvx3qpd JSTOR
2018050030
GBC262927 bnb
019118951 Uk
Indians of South America--Religion.
Indians of South America--Social life and customs.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT--Spirituality--Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
RELIGION--Comparative Religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Indians of South America--Religion
Indians of South America--Social life and customs
F2230.1.R3 / N66 2022
299.8
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Illustrations; List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Towards Engaged Ontographies of Animist Developments in Amerindian South America; Juan Javier Rivera And�ia Part I: Securing Body and Wealth Chapter 1. On The Wings of Inspiration: Ritual Efficacy, Dancing Flamingos and Divine Mediation Among Pastoralists and Herd Animals in Isluga, Chile; Penelope Dransart Chapter 2. Southern Sacrifice and Northern Sorcery: Mountain Spirits and Encantos in the Peruvian Andes; Marieka Sax Chapter 3. Marking Out the Bounds of Humanity in Tsachila Ritual; Montserrat Ventura I Oller Chapter 4. Losing Part of Oneself: Channels of Communication Between Humans and Non-Humans Revealed by a Therapeutic Treatment of Terror Illness Called Susto (Andean Foothills of Apolo in Bolivia); Francis Ferri�e Part II: Cohabitation and Sharing Chapter 5. The Inkas Still Exist in the Ucayali Valley or What Can We Learn from Songs; Bernd Brabec de Mori Chapter 6. On Quechua Relatedness to Contemporary and Ancient Dead; Guillermo Salas Carre�no Chapter 7. "I'm Crying for the Beautiful Skin of the Jaguar": Laments, Non-Humans and Conviviality Among the Ayoreo of the Northern Chaco; Alfonso Otaegui Chapter 8. Substantiated Wealth: Morality, Local Economy and the Body in Indigenous Amazonia; Minna Opas Part III: Transformations and Slow Turbulences Chapter 9. Signifying Others: The Musical Management of Social Differences in Amazonia; Jonathan Hill Chapter 10. Inventing a New Verbal Art from Traditional Issues: The Evangelical Songs of the Suru�i of Rond�onia; C�edric Yvinec Chapter 11. Prosperity and the Flow of Vital Substances: Relating to Earth Beings in Processes of Mobility in the Southern Peruvian Andes; Cecilie Vindal �degaard Epilogue: The Wild Boar is Out Again and Knows Better than the Jaguar; Mark M�unzel Bibliography; Index
"Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies whose lives and worlds are undergoing processes of transformation, adaptation, and deterioration, this volume offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands. The resulting ethnographies - depicting non-human entities emerging in ritual, oral tradition, cosmology, shamanism and music - explore the conditions and effects of unequally ranked life forms, increased extraction of resources, continuous migration to urban centers, and the (usually) forced incorporation of current expressions of modernity into indigenous societies"--
9781789200980 1789200989
22573/ctvvx3qpd JSTOR
2018050030
GBC262927 bnb
019118951 Uk
Indians of South America--Religion.
Indians of South America--Social life and customs.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT--Spirituality--Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
RELIGION--Comparative Religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Indians of South America--Religion
Indians of South America--Social life and customs
F2230.1.R3 / N66 2022
299.8