In Darkness and Secrecy : The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia PDF
Edited by Whitehead Neil L. Whitehead, Wright Robin Wright
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These essays, by leading anthropologists of South American shamanism, consider assault sorcery as it is practiced in parts of Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela, and Peru. They analyze the social and political dynamics of witchcraft and sorcery and their relation to cosmology, mythology, ritual, and other forms of symbolic violence and aggression in each society studied. They also discuss the relations of witchcraft and sorcery to interethnic contact and the ways that shamanic power may be co-opted by the state. In Darkness and Secrecy includes reflections on the ethical and practical implications of ethnographic investigation of violent cultural practices.
Contributors. Dominique Buchillet, Carlos Fausto, Michael Heckenberger, Elsje Lagrou, E. Jean Langdon, George Mentore, Donald Pollock, Fernando Santos-Granero, Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern, Marnio Teixeira-Pinto, Silvia Vidal, Neil L. Whitehead, Johannes Wilbert, Robin Wright
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- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:03/06/2004
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:03/06/2004
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- ISBN:9780822385837