edited by E. Jean Matteson Langdon and Gerhard Baer
1st ed
Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
c1992
x, 350 p. :
ill., map ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-336) and index
Shamanism and anthropology / E. Jean Matteson Langdon -- Culina shamanism; Gender, power, and knowledge / Donald Pollock -- Dau; Shamanic power in Siona religion and medicine / E. Jean Matteson Langdon -- The concept of nihue among the Shipibo-Conibo of Eastern Peru / Bruno Illius -- The one intoxicated by tobacco; Matsigenka shamanism / Gerhard Baer -- The body of the Guaijiro shaman; Symptoms or symbols? / Michel Perrin -- He who dreams; The nocturnal source of transforming power in Kagwahiv shamanism / Waud H. Kracke -- Dream, shamanism, and power among the toba of formosa province / Pablo G. Wright -- A musical aesthetic of ritual curing in the northwest amazon / Jonathan D. Hill -- Nobody is there to hear; Desana therapeutic incantations / Dominique Buchillet -- Icaros; Magic melodies among the Mestizo shamans of the Peruvian amazon / Luis Eduardo Luna -- Venancio Kamiko; Wakuénai shaman and messiah / Robin M. Wright, Jonathan D. Hill -- Sibundoy shamanism and popular culture in Colombia / María Clemencia Ramírez de Jara, Carlos Ernesto Pinzón Castanō