| Description |
1 online resource (294 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Confessions of a Hybrid Anthropologist; Chapter 2: Shamanic Initiation and Ancestor Veneration; Chapter 3: Entering the Afterlife; Chapter 4: Interdependence and Continuity in Huichol Cosmology; Chapter 5: Seeking Sacred Indexes to Celebrate Life's Logos; Postscript; Appendix A: A Huichol Woman's Burial; Appendix B: Funeral Ritual Song Excerpts; Appendix C: Deer-Hunting and Reincarnating Rituals; Appendix D: Death and Mourning among the Huichol; Notes; References; Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
The culmination of 34 years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, this book offers ground-breaking insights into fundamental principles of Huichol shamanism and ritual. The scope and length of Fikes's research, combined with the depth of his participation with four Huichol shamans, enable him to convey with empathy details of shamanic initiation, methods for diagnosis and treatment of illness, and motives for performing funeral, deer and peyote hunting, and maize-cultivating rituals |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Huichol mythology.
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Huichol cosmology.
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Huichol Indians -- Religion.
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Shamanism -- Mexico
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Symbolic anthropology -- Mexico
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Huichol cosmology
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Huichol Indians -- Religion
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Huichol mythology
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Shamanism
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Symbolic anthropology
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Mexico
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780759120280 |
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0759120285 |
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