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Mysteries of the jaguar shamans of the northwest Amazon / Robin M. Wright ; foreword by Michael J. Harner.
Penn Museum Library F2520.1.B35 D3 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wright, Robin, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- da Silva, Mandu.
- Baniwa Indians--Biography.
- Baniwa Indians.
- Shamans--Brazil--Biography.
- Shamans.
- Baniwa Indians--Religion.
- Baniwa philosophy.
- Baniwa Indians--Rites and ceremonies.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Brazil.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Shamans, Chanters, Sorcerers, and Prophets
- 1 "You Are Going to Save Many Lives": The Life Story of Mandu da Silva, Hohodene Jaguar Shaman, coauthored by Manuel da Silva and Ercilia Lima da Silva 31
- 2 Mandu's Apprenticeship and a Jaguar Shaman's Powers of World-Making 53
- 3 "You Will Suffer Along Our Way": The Great Suffering in Mandu's Life 105
- Part 2 Shamanic Knowledge and Power in the Baniwa Universe
- 4 Creation, Cosmology, and Ecological Time 147
- 5 Mythscapes as Living Memories of the Ancestors 208
- Part 3 Transmission of Shamanic Knowledge and Power
- 6 The Birth of the Child of the Sun, Kuwai 233
- 7 Death and Regeneration in the First Initiation Rites, Kwaipan 247
- 8 The Struggle for Power and Knowledge among Men and Women 276
- Part 4 Revitalization Movements in Traditional and Christianized Communities
- 9 The House of Shamans' Knowledge and Power, the House of Adornment, and the Pamaale School Complex 297.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780803243941
- 0803243944
- OCLC:
- 815824866
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