Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings By C. E. Giraldo Herrera (2018)
Review of César Enrique Giraldo Herrera, Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings. Engages with wider scholarship about historical and contemporary shamans and animists in the Carbbean, Central and South America. Argues the medical and epidemeological knowledge aids better understanding of what shamans do...
Subtitles: | Special Issue: The Qur'an and affect |
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Format: | Electronic Review |
Language: | English |
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Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Equinox Publishing
[2019]
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In: |
Body and religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 94-96 |
IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements KBR Latin America |
Further subjects: | B
Book review
B Animists B Shamans B Eyes B microbes B Syphilis |
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Summary: | Review of César Enrique Giraldo Herrera, Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings. Engages with wider scholarship about historical and contemporary shamans and animists in the Carbbean, Central and South America. Argues the medical and epidemeological knowledge aids better understanding of what shamans do. In particular, the biology of eyes and relationships with microbes propels an argument for the value of Amerindian medical and relational knowleges. |
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ISSN: | 2057-5831 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Body and religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/bar.11877 |