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  • Portals of Power : Shamanism in South America
  • Written by author E. Jean Langdon, Gerhard Baer
  • Published by University of New Mexico Press, 1992/10/01
  • Shamans and their practices have fascinated Western civilization since publication of the earliest ethnographies. Yet, alien to a positivistic worldview and characterized by hysteria, ecstasy, and magic, shamanism has continued to be classified as vestigi
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Introduction: Shamanism and Anthropology 1
Pt. 1 Native Conceptions of Shamans and Power
Ch. 1 Culina Shamanism: Gender Power and Knowledge 25
Ch. 2 Dau: Shamanic Power in Siona Religion and Medicine 41
Ch. 3 The Concept of Nihue Among the Shipibo-Conibo of Eastern Peru 63
Ch. 4 The One Intoxicated by Tobacco: Matsigenka Shamanism 79
Pt. 2 Shamans and the Visionary Experience
Ch. 5 The Body of the Guajiro Shaman: Symptoms Or Symbols? 103
Ch. 6 He Who Dreams: The Nocturnal Source of Transforming Power in Kagwahiv Shamanism 127
Ch. 7 Dream, Shamanism, and Power Among the Toba of Formosa Province 149
Pt. 3 Expressive Culture and Shamanism
Ch. 8 A Musical Aesthetic of Ritual Curing in the Northwest Amazon 175
Ch. 9 Nobody Is There to Hear: Desana Therapeutic Incantations 211
Ch. 10 Icaros: Magic Melodies Among the Mestizo Shamans of the Peruvian Amazon 231
Pt. 4 Shamans and Responses to Change
Ch. 11 Venancio Kamiko: Wakuenai Shaman and Messiah 257
Ch. 12 Sibundoy Shamanism and Popular Culture in Colombia 287
Bibliography 305
Contributors 337
Index 339


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