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...

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發表在:EASA series
其他作者: Rivera Andía, Juan Javier (Editor)
格式: Print 圖書
語言:English
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出版: New York, NY Oxford Berghahn 2019
In: EASA series (37)
Volumes / Articles:Show volumes/articles.
版:First published
叢編:EASA series 37
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Lateinamerika / 美洲原住民 / 宗教 / 宇宙論 / 宗教儀式
IxTheo Classification:BB Indigenous religions
Further subjects:B Indians of South America 宗教
B Indians of South America Social life and customs
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總結:"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"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:1789200970