Living Ancestors

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

AvZeljko Jokic

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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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 “part is equal to the whole,” which is embedded in the nature of the Yanomami macrocosm, human dwelling, multiple-soul components, and shamans’ relationships with embodied spirit-helpers. This book fills an important gap in the regional study of Yanomami people, and, on a broader scale, enriches understanding of this ancient phenomenon by focusing on the consciousness involved in shamanism through firsthand experiential involvement.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-07-31
Mått:152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:435 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781789207583

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Zeljko Jokic is a Visiting Fellow at the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, and Research Assistant at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Formerly, he worked at the Amazonian Centre for Investigation and Control of Tropical Diseases and as a consultant for the Inter-American Organization for the Elimination of Onchocerciasis.

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“This meticulously researched study with its accessible, clear, and engaging presentation fills a significant gap in the regional study of the Yanomami. Essential.” Choice

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List of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgementsIntroductionShamanism: Origins and Key FeaturesYanomami Shamanism: A Cross-Cultural PerspectiveThe Book’s Subject Matter and its Guiding PrinciplesFieldwork Setting and MethodologyThe Book’s OutlineChapter 1. Life on Top of the Old Sky: Yanomami Habitat, Ethnographic Setting and Local HistoriesYanomami HabitatHistorical Migratory Movements and EncountersThe Sweeping Winds of Change and its ConsequencesPlatanal and Sheroana-theri at the Turn of the Twenty-First CenturyChapter 2. Inside the Boa’s Abdomen: The Yanomami CosmosHolographic Totality of the Yanomami CosmosNo Patapi tëhë: The Ever-present Mythical Time of CreationOrigin MythsChapter 3. Hekura, Body and IllnessShamans and HekuraEpena: Transformative Substance and Aliment for HekuraShamanism in Myths and in Contemporary ContextYanomami Conception of a Person and Causes of IllnessChapter 4. Hekuraprai: Corporeal CosmogenesisSummary of the Initiatory OrdealTransformation into Hekura: Day-by-Day ProcessCosmic Body and its DynamismFirst Trance: Re-experience of Death and the Beginning of HekuramouChapter 5. Oneiric EncountersHekuramou and Expansion of Shamanistic PowersDreams and ShamanismDream Lucidity and the Transitional States of Dream ConsciousnessDreams, Illness and HealingChapter 6. Shamanic Battlefield: The Pendulum of Life and DeathShapori’s New Identity and Social Obligation on the Intracommunal LevelThe Dialectics between Defensive and Offensive HekuramouBody Intrusion and the Dynamics of the Cosmic FlowShaporimou and Intersubjective Knowledge DiffusionChapter 7. Two Pathways to Curing and in Between: Biomedical and Shamanic Treatment in the Life of YanomamiShamanism and Biomedicine: Compatibility and DifferencesDynamics of Doctor-Shapori-Patient InteractionYanomami Responses to Diarrhoea, Malaria and Respiratory InfectionsChapter 8. Return of the Ancestors: The All-pervading Shawara, The End of the World and the Beginning of a New EpochThe Origin of Shawara EpidemicsFurther Expansion of the Shawara ConceptThe End of the World and the Beginning of Another Cosmic CyclePostscript: Recent DevelopmentsGlossary of Yanomami TermsBibliographyIndex