Neil L Whitehead

Dark Shamans

Kanaimà and the Poetics of Violent Death

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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"Ethnographer Neil L. Whitehead enters this realm of reality and mythology, of storytelling and firsthand experience by accident, and his opening tale sustains the horror-filled storytelling power characteristic of such authors as Bram Stoker and Stephen King. As such, the kanaima, long known to explorers, poets, and ordinary people of northeastern South America, take their place in the history of modernity along with Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolf Man."--Norman Whitten, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 170mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780822329886
• ISBN-10: 0822329883
• Artikelnr.: 22262102

Autorenporträt

Neil L. Whitehead

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. The Ethnographer's Tale 11
2. Tales of the Kanaima: Observers 41
3. Tales of the Kanaima: Participants 88
4. Shamanic Warfare 128
5. Modernity, Development, and Kanaima Violence 174
6. Ritual Violence and Magical Death in Amazonia 202
Conclusion: Anthropologies of Violence 245
Notes 253
Works Cited 285
Index 299