Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9783786129301 |
| ISBN10: | 3786129304 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 236 pages |
| Size: | 240x170x16 mm |
| Weight: | 460 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | mit 1 Farbabbildung und 9 s/w-Abbildungen |
| 700 |
Category:
Sorcery in Amazonia
A Comparative Exploration of Magical Assault
Series:
BIBLIOTECA ANTROPOLOGICA AMERICANA;
1;
Publisher: Mann (Gebr.), Berlin
Date of Publication: 14 February 2025
Number of Volumes: Broschur
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Short description:
The ethnographic literature focusing on sorcery in Amazonia has been sporadic and sparse. However sorcery is often of great importance in the lives and cosmologies of many people in different parts of lowland South America.
Long description:
Although shamanism has become a well-developed and expansive topic within the anthropology of Amazonia, the ethnographic literature focusing on sorcery has been sporadic and sparse by comparison. This has particularly been the case since the death of Neil L. Whitehead in 2012. However, as this volume shows, sorcery is often of great importance in the lives and cosmologies of many people in different parts of lowland South America. Across the region, it takes a variety of forms and involves a diverse range of practices. This edited volume comparatively re-examines the topic of sorcery in Amazonia with particular emphases on local ontological frameworks, issues of embodiment, and related uses of sound.It highlights ethical approaches to research concerning sorcery and discusses the ethics within local communities of sorcery practices and accusations.