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The Last Shaman : Change in an Amazonian Community / Andrew Gray.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Arakmbut of Amazonian Peru ; 2Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [1997]Copyright date: 1997Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781789204063
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.089983 23
LOC classification:
  • F3430.1.M38 .G739 2004
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- FIGURES -- MAPS -- SERIES PREFACE -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 The Death of the Shaman -- Chapter 2 Species and Spirits -- Chapter 3 E’manoka’e – Curing -- Chapter 4 Dreams and the Source of Knowledge -- Chapter 5 The Politics of Shamanic Curing -- Chapter 6 The Social Path from Desire to Power -- Chapter 7 Generosity and Giving -- Chapter 8 Encounters -- Chapter 9 Social Change among the Arakmbut -- Chapter 10 The Colonial Context of Social Change -- Chapter 11 Internal Factors in Socio-Political Change -- Chapter 12 The Invisible World and its Changeless Qualities -- CONCLUSION -- ORTHOGRAPHY -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRPAHY -- INDEX
Summary: The Arakmbut are an indigenous people who live in the Madre de Dios region of the southeastern Peruvian rain forest. Since their first encounters with missionaries in the 1950s,they have shown resilience and a determination to affirm their identity in the face of many difficulties. During the last fifteen years, Arakmbut survival has been under threat from a goldrush that has attracted hundreds of colonists onto their territories. This trilogy of books traces the ways in which the Arakmbut overcome the dangers that surround them: their mythology and cultural strength; their social flexibility; and their capacity to incorporate non-indigenous concepts and activities into their defence strategies. Each area is punctuated by the constant presence of the invisible spirit, which provides a seamless theme connecting the books to each other. The death of a shaman in 1980 had an enormous spiritual and political consequences for one of the Arakmbut communities, resulting in a shift in its social organization from comparative hierarchy to a more egalitarian system. The author uses this case as an illustration to challenge the idea that indigenous peoples live in fossilized, static worlds. He shows that political activities in conjunction with shamanic communication with the spirit world provide the impetus and context for change. Buy all three volumes for 20% discount
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- FIGURES -- MAPS -- SERIES PREFACE -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 The Death of the Shaman -- Chapter 2 Species and Spirits -- Chapter 3 E’manoka’e – Curing -- Chapter 4 Dreams and the Source of Knowledge -- Chapter 5 The Politics of Shamanic Curing -- Chapter 6 The Social Path from Desire to Power -- Chapter 7 Generosity and Giving -- Chapter 8 Encounters -- Chapter 9 Social Change among the Arakmbut -- Chapter 10 The Colonial Context of Social Change -- Chapter 11 Internal Factors in Socio-Political Change -- Chapter 12 The Invisible World and its Changeless Qualities -- CONCLUSION -- ORTHOGRAPHY -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRPAHY -- INDEX

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The Arakmbut are an indigenous people who live in the Madre de Dios region of the southeastern Peruvian rain forest. Since their first encounters with missionaries in the 1950s,they have shown resilience and a determination to affirm their identity in the face of many difficulties. During the last fifteen years, Arakmbut survival has been under threat from a goldrush that has attracted hundreds of colonists onto their territories. This trilogy of books traces the ways in which the Arakmbut overcome the dangers that surround them: their mythology and cultural strength; their social flexibility; and their capacity to incorporate non-indigenous concepts and activities into their defence strategies. Each area is punctuated by the constant presence of the invisible spirit, which provides a seamless theme connecting the books to each other. The death of a shaman in 1980 had an enormous spiritual and political consequences for one of the Arakmbut communities, resulting in a shift in its social organization from comparative hierarchy to a more egalitarian system. The author uses this case as an illustration to challenge the idea that indigenous peoples live in fossilized, static worlds. He shows that political activities in conjunction with shamanic communication with the spirit world provide the impetus and context for change. Buy all three volumes for 20% discount

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In English.

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