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1 online resource (396 pages) |
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EASA Ser. ; v. 37 |
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EASA Ser
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| Contents |
Intro; Non-humans in Amerindian South America; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Maps, Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Securing Body and Wealth; Chapter 1. On the Wings of Inspiration; Chapter 2. Southern Sacrifice and Northern Sorcery; Chapter 3. Marking Out the Bounds of Humanity in Tsachila Ritual; Chapter 4. Losing Part of Oneself; Part II. Cohabitation and Sharing; Chapter 5. The Inkas Still Exist in the Ucayali Valley; Chapter 6. On Quechua Relatedness to Contemporary and Ancient Dead; Chapter 7. 'I'm Crying for the Beautiful Skin of the Jaguar' |
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Chapter 8. Substantiated WealthPart III. Transformations and Slow Turbulences; Chapter 9. Signifying Others; Chapter 10. Inventing a New Verbal Art from Traditional Issues; Chapter 11. Prosperity and the Flow of Vital Substances; Epilogue. The Wild Boar Is Out Again and Knows Better than the Jaguar; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Ethnology -- South America.
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Folklore-South America
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Indians of South America -- Rites and ceremonies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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Ethnology
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Indians of South America -- Rites and ceremonies
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South America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781789200980 |
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1789200989 |
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