A spiritual history of Alleluia and the Pakaraima Mountains / Daniel Cooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, Daniel G. (Daniel Gompertz), 1978- author.

Series:

Sage Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research.

Sage Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Religion--Case studies.

Indigenous peoples.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2024.

Summary:

This case study explores the theories and methods used during multisited ethnogeographic doctoral fieldwork among the Alleluia, an Indigenous religion and social movement in the Pakaraima Mountains that transcend Guyana, Brazil, and Venezuela. This highly forested Amazonian domain has abundant deposits of rare earth elements, water, carbon, and biocultural diversity. Ka'pon (Akawaio, Patamona, and Ingarikó) and Pemon (Makushi, Arekuna, Taurepan, and Kamarakoto) members of the Carib linguistic family have traversed and cultivated this "land of many waters" since time immemorial. Alleluia is not only an official religion in Guyana with 26 churches throughout the Pakaraima Mountains and circum-Mount Roraima landscape, but it is also a highland resistance and revitalization movement with a unique dialect and history. Primary qualitative data were derived from oral histories, stories, testimonials, and spiritual geographic mappings recorded using decolonizing action research methods, participant observation, focus groups, and semistructured interviews to compose a comprehensive spiritual history of an Indigenous landscape. This novel transdisciplinary method is perfectly suited for further research that aims to document and analyze the integral relationship between an individual or community and the surrounding landscape.

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ISBN:

1-5296-8236-3

9781529682366

OCLC:

1428169842