Non-humans in Amerindian South America: ethnographies of indigenous cosmologies, rituals and songs
"Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies whose lives and worlds are undergoing processes of transformation, adaptation, and deterioration, this volume offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South Americ...
| Pubblicato in: | EASA series |
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| Altri autori: | |
| Tipo di documento: | Stampa Libro |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
| Servizio "Subito": | Ordinare ora. |
| Verificare la disponibilità: | HBZ Gateway |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Pubblicazione: |
New York, NY Oxford
Berghahn
2019
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EASA series (37)
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| Volumi / Articoli: | Mostra i volumi/ gli articoli. |
| Edizione: | First published |
| Periodico/Rivista: | EASA series
37 |
| (sequenze di) soggetti normati: | B
America latina
/ Indiani d'America <motivo>
/ Religione
/ Cosmologia
/ Rito
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| Notazioni IxTheo: | BB Religioni indigene (religioni di gruppi etnici) |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
Indians of South America
Religione
B Indians of South America Social life and customs |
| Accesso online: |
Indice Quarta di copertina |
| Riepilogo: | "Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies whose lives and worlds are undergoing processes of transformation, adaptation, and deterioration, this volume offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands. The resulting ethnographies - depicting non-human entities emerging in ritual, oral tradition, cosmology, shamanism and music - explore the conditions and effects of unequally ranked life forms, increased extraction of resources, continuous migration to urban centers, and the (usually) forced incorporation of current expressions of modernity into indigenous societies"-- |
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| Descrizione del documento: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1789200970 |