Introduction I -- 1. The Ethnographer's Tale -- i 2. Tales of the Kanaima: Observers 41 -- 3. Tales of the Kanaima: Participants 88 -- 4. Shamanic Warfare 128 -- 5. Modernity, Development, and Kanaima Violence 174 -- 6. Ritual Violence and Magical Death in Amazonia 202 -- Conclusion: Anthropologies of Violence 245 -- Notes 253
Summary
Uses an ethnographic example of ritual violence to illuminate cultural expression more widely and thereby reformulate anthropological and historical approaches to warfare and violence
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-298) and index
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