Neil L. Whitehead

Broschiertes Buch

Dark Shamans

Kanaimà and the Poetics of Violent Death

Beschreibung

Uses an ethnographic example of ritual violence to illuminate cultural expression more widely and thereby reformulate anthropological and historical approaches to warfare and violence.

Autor

Neil L. Whitehead is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author and editor of numerous books, most recently Beyond the Visible and the Material: The Amerindianization of Society in the Work of Peter RiviÈre (coedited with Laura Rival) and War in the Tribal Zone: Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare (coedited with R. B. Ferguson). He is the editor of the journal Ethnohistory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 170mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9780822329886
• ISBN-10: 0822329883
• Artikelnr.: 22262102