Ernst Halbmayer is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Institute for Comparative Cultural Research, University of Marburg, Germany.

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• PART I The Isthmo–Colombian Area in context 1 Introduction: toward an anthropological understanding of the area between the Andes, Mesoamerica, and the Amazon PART II Conceptualizing the Isthmo–Colombian Area from a regional comparative perspective 2 An Amerindian humanism: order and transformation in Chibchan universes 3 Languages of the Isthmo–Colombian Area and its southeastern borderland: Chibchan, Chocoan, Yukpa, and Wayuunaiki 4 Kinship, clanship, and hierarchy in the Isthmo–Colombian Area 5 Between Mesoamerica, the Central Andes, and Amazonia: area conceptions, chronologies, and history 6 The golden ones: the human body as reflective metallic surface in the Isthmo–Colombian Area PART III Case studies: change and continuity in shamanic and priestly practices and the conception of things, humans, plants, and animals 7 Parents who own lives: relations and persons among the I’ku, a Chibchan group in Colombia 8 Tuwancha, "the One Who Knows": specialists and specialized knowledge in transhuman communication among the Sokorpa Yukpa of the Serranía del Perijá, Colombia 9 The Wounaan haaihí jëeu nʌm ritual with the k'ugwiu: reinforcing benevolence and preventing calamity 10 Things, life, and humans in Guna Yala (Panama): talking about molagana and nudsugana inside and outside Guna society 11 Plant ontologies among the Bribri of Talamanca, Costa Rica 12 The place of livestock in human-non-human relationship among the Wayuu 13 Murderous spirits: shamanic interpretation of armed violence, suicide, and exhumation in the economy of death of the Emberá (Chocó, Antioquia, Colombia)

Ernst Halbmayer is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Institute for Comparative Cultural Research, University of Marburg, Germany.

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• PART I The Isthmo–Colombian Area in context 1 Introduction: toward an anthropological understanding of the area between the Andes, Mesoamerica, and the Amazon PART II Conceptualizing the Isthmo–Colombian Area from a regional comparative perspective 2 An Amerindian humanism: order and transformation in Chibchan universes 3 Languages of the Isthmo–Colombian Area and its southeastern borderland: Chibchan, Chocoan, Yukpa, and Wayuunaiki 4 Kinship, clanship, and hierarchy in the Isthmo–Colombian Area 5 Between Mesoamerica, the Central Andes, and Amazonia: area conceptions, chronologies, and history 6 The golden ones: the human body as reflective metallic surface in the Isthmo–Colombian Area PART III Case studies: change and continuity in shamanic and priestly practices and the conception of things, humans, plants, and animals 7 Parents who own lives: relations and persons among the I’ku, a Chibchan group in Colombia 8 Tuwancha, "the One Who Knows": specialists and specialized knowledge in transhuman communication among the Sokorpa Yukpa of the Serranía del Perijá, Colombia 9 The Wounaan haaihí jëeu nʌm ritual with the k'ugwiu: reinforcing benevolence and preventing calamity 10 Things, life, and humans in Guna Yala (Panama): talking about molagana and nudsugana inside and outside Guna society 11 Plant ontologies among the Bribri of Talamanca, Costa Rica 12 The place of livestock in human-non-human relationship among the Wayuu 13 Murderous spirits: shamanic interpretation of armed violence, suicide, and exhumation in the economy of death of the Emberá (Chocó, Antioquia, Colombia)

Ernst Halbmayer is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Institute for Comparative Cultural Research, University of Marburg, Germany.

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• PART I The Isthmo–Colombian Area in context 1 Introduction: toward an anthropological understanding of the area between the Andes, Mesoamerica, and the Amazon PART II Conceptualizing the Isthmo–Colombian Area from a regional comparative perspective 2 An Amerindian humanism: order and transformation in Chibchan universes 3 Languages of the Isthmo–Colombian Area and its southeastern borderland: Chibchan, Chocoan, Yukpa, and Wayuunaiki 4 Kinship, clanship, and hierarchy in the Isthmo–Colombian Area 5 Between Mesoamerica, the Central Andes, and Amazonia: area conceptions, chronologies, and history 6 The golden ones: the human body as reflective metallic surface in the Isthmo–Colombian Area PART III Case studies: change and continuity in shamanic and priestly practices and the conception of things, humans, plants, and animals 7 Parents who own lives: relations and persons among the I’ku, a Chibchan group in Colombia 8 Tuwancha, "the One Who Knows": specialists and specialized knowledge in transhuman communication among the Sokorpa Yukpa of the Serranía del Perijá, Colombia 9 The Wounaan haaihí jëeu nʌm ritual with the k'ugwiu: reinforcing benevolence and preventing calamity 10 Things, life, and humans in Guna Yala (Panama): talking about molagana and nudsugana inside and outside Guna society 11 Plant ontologies among the Bribri of Talamanca, Costa Rica 12 The place of livestock in human-non-human relationship among the Wayuu 13 Murderous spirits: shamanic interpretation of armed violence, suicide, and exhumation in the economy of death of the Emberá (Chocó, Antioquia, Colombia)