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The Living Ancestors de Zeljko Jokic

The Living Ancestors

Autor Zeljko Jokic
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iul 2020
This phenomenologically oriented ethnography focuses on experiential aspects of Yanomami shamanism, including shamanistic activities in the context of cultural change. The author interweaves ethnographic material with theoretical components of a holographic principle, or the idea that the "part is equal to the whole," which is embedded in the nature of the Yanomami macrocosm, human dwelling, multiple-soul components, and shamans' relationships with embodied spirit-helpers. This book fills an important gap in the regional study of Yanomami people, and, on a broader scale, enriches understanding of this ancient phenomenon by focusing on the consciousness involved in shamanism through firsthand experiential involvement.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781789207583
ISBN-10: 1789207584
Pagini: 298
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: BERGHAHN BOOKS

Notă biografică

Zeljko Jokic received his PhD in Social Anthropology in 2004 at the University of Sydney. Since then he lectured at various universities, conducted a short-term fieldwork in Siberia and worked as a Research Assistant at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. He also spent several years working as a consultant for the Inter-American Organization for the Elimination of Onchocerciasis at the Amazonian Centre for Investigation and Control of Tropical Diseases, Puerto Ayacucho, Venezuela. Currently, he is a Policy Officer at the Health and Medical Research Office of the Australian Government Department of Health.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
  • Shamanism: Origins and Key Features
  • Yanomami Shamanism: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
  • The Book's Subject Matter and its Guiding Principles
  • Fieldwork Setting and Methodology
  • The Book's Outline
Chapter 1. Life on Top of the Old Sky: Yanomami Habitat, Ethnographic Setting and Local Histories
  • Yanomami Habitat
  • Historical Migratory Movements and Encounters
  • The Sweeping Winds of Change and its Consequences
  • Platanal and Sheroana-theri at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 2. Inside the Boa's Abdomen: The Yanomami Cosmos
  • Holographic Totality of the Yanomami Cosmos
  • No Patapi tëhë: The Ever-present Mythical Time of Creation
  • Origin Myths
Chapter 3. Hekura, Body and Illness
  • Shamans and Hekura
  • Epena: Transformative Substance and Aliment for Hekura
  • Shamanism in Myths and in Contemporary Context
  • Yanomami Conception of a Person and Causes of Illness
Chapter 4. Hekuraprai: Corporeal Cosmogenesis
  • Summary of the Initiatory Ordeal
  • Transformation into Hekura: Day-by-Day Process
  • Cosmic Body and its Dynamism
  • First Trance: Re-experience of Death and the Beginning of Hekuramou
Chapter 5. Oneiric Encounters
  • Hekuramou and Expansion of Shamanistic Powers
  • Dreams and Shamanism
  • Dream Lucidity and the Transitional States of Dream Consciousness
  • Dreams, Illness and Healing
Chapter 6. Shamanic Battlefield: The Pendulum of Life and Death
  • Shapori's New Identity and Social Obligation on the Intracommunal Level
  • The Dialectics between Defensive and Offensive Hekuramou
  • Body Intrusion and the Dynamics of the Cosmic Flow
  • Shaporimou and Intersubjective Knowledge Diffusion
Chapter 7. Two Pathways to Curing and in Between: Biomedical and Shamanic Treatment in the Life of Yanomami
  • Shamanism and Biomedicine: Compatibility and Differences
  • Dynamics of Doctor-Shapori-Patient Interaction
  • Yanomami Responses to Diarrhoea, Malaria and Respiratory Infections
Chapter 8. Return of the Ancestors: The All-pervading Shawara, The End of the World and the Beginning of a New Epoch
  • The Origin of Shawara Epidemics
  • Further Expansion of the Shawara Concept
  • The End of the World and the Beginning of Another Cosmic Cycle
Postscript: Recent Developments
Glossary of Yanomami Terms
Bibliography
Index

Descriere

This ethnography focuses on Yanomami shamanism, especially in the context of cultural change. The author interweaves ethnographic material with theoretical components of a holographic principle, or the "part is equal to the whole." This book fills a gap in the study of Yanomami people and enriches understanding of this ancient phenomenon.