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| Series Preface | ||
| Preface | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Ch. 1 | The Death of the Shaman | 20 |
| Ch. 2 | Species and Spirits | 37 |
| Ch. 3 | E'manoka'e - Curing | 62 |
| Ch. 4 | Dreams and the Source of Knowledge | 80 |
| Ch. 5 | The Politics of Shamanic Curing | 99 |
| Ch. 6 | The Social Path from Desire to Power | 116 |
| Ch. 7 | Generosity and Giving | 138 |
| Ch. 8 | Encounters | 159 |
| Ch. 9 | Social Change among the Arakmbut | 182 |
| Ch. 10 | The Colonial Context of Social Change | 200 |
| Ch. 11 | Internal Factors in Socio-Political Change | 220 |
| Ch. 12 | The Invisible World and its Changeless Qualities | 240 |
| Conclusion | 257 | |
| Orthography | 269 | |
| Glossary | 271 | |
| Bibliography | 278 | |
| Index | 286 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Bryan Francis
reviewed Last Shaman: Change in an Amazonian Community, Vol. 2 on June 02, 2014
Last Shaman
Interesting book about the sources of myths and how they evolved. A slight bit repetitive in that the book is broken into chapters dealing with types of deities, rituals, the afterlife and creation. Spence repeats the stories and attributes of the mythological figures quite often.
It's revealing that many of the myths indicate that early peoples resorted to human sacrifice to placate their Gods. Even at this remove the inhuman barbarity and cruelty of the Aztecs is arresting. They sacrificed children to rain gods and considered it a 'good omen' if the children wept. The Aztec treatment of prisoners puts their conquest by Spanish into perspective.
Some of the stories, for example, the Kiche Indian myths of Guatemala must have been composed under the influence of hallucinatory drugs.
Despite the repetition I enjoyed it.
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