Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings.
Intro -- Prologue -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1: Colonized Selves, Decolonizing Ontologies -- 1.1 Decolonizing Ontologies -- 1.2 The Ontological Turn and Its Challenges -- 1.3 Commensurability, Translation, and Deep Decolonization: Reclaiming Knowledge -- 1.4...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cham
Palgrave Macmillan US
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Further subjects: | B
Electronic books
B Physical anthropology-Research |
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| Summary: | Intro -- Prologue -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1: Colonized Selves, Decolonizing Ontologies -- 1.1 Decolonizing Ontologies -- 1.2 The Ontological Turn and Its Challenges -- 1.3 Commensurability, Translation, and Deep Decolonization: Reclaiming Knowledge -- 1.4 Description of the Book -- Bibliography -- Part I Amerindian Shamanism -- 2: (Mis)Understanding Shamanism and Animism -- 2.1 Entrenched Notions of Shamanism and Animism -- 2.2 Reframing Animism -- 2.3 Amerindian Perspectivism -- 2.4 Soulless Animism and Body-Full Spirits -- Bibliography -- 3: First Contacts with Amerindian Shamans and Their 'Spirits' -- 3.1 The Hispano-American Encounter, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance -- 3.2 The French Encounter with Shamanism that Preceeded the Enlightenment -- 3.2.1 Acansáncou or Oupoyem: Spiritual Entities -- 3.2.2 Boyáicou: The Rival Magicians and Their Idolatries -- 3.2.3 Naturalizing Callinago Medicine, Trivializing Sorcery, and Superstition -- 3.3 Analysis: The Spirits of the Encounter -- Bibliography -- 4: Syncretic Ontologies of the Microbial-Shamanic Beings -- 4.1 Shamanic Beings -- 4.2 Commensurable Aspects of Microbes with Shamanic Beings -- 4.3 Social Science and Its Recalcitrance to Microbiology -- 4.3.1 Anthropology and Medical Materialism -- 4.3.2 Historicity of Microbes -- Bibliography -- Part II Shamanic Microscopy, Perceiving Cellular "Souls" and Microbial "Spirits" -- Bibliography -- 5: Shamanic Epistemologies -- Bibliography -- 6: Neuropsychological Naturalistic Explanations of Shamanic Visions -- Bibliography -- 7: The Cavern of the Eye: Seeing Through the Retina -- 7.1 Early Physiological Research on Entoptic Vision -- 7.2 Neurophysiology of Eidetic Phosphenes -- 7.3 Pharmacology of Hallucinations and Phosphenes -- 7.4 Renewed Interest for Entoptics. |
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| ISBN: | 3319713183 |