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Dark shamans: kanaimà and the poetics of violent death

Neil L Whitehead 2002 © Duke University Press
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  • ATLA Special Series
ISBN(s)
  • 9780822329886 (paper)
  • 9780822384304 (ebook)
  • 9780822329527 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Native Peoples of the Americas
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • I. The Ethnographer's Tale (page 11)
  • 2. Tales of the Kanaimà: Observers (page 41)
  • 3. Tales of the Kanaimà: Participants (page 88)
  • 4. Shamanic Warfare (page 128)
  • 5. Modernity, Development, and Kanaimà Violence (page 174)
  • 6. Ritual Violence and Magical Death in Amazonia (page 202)
  • Conclusion: Anthropologies of Violence (page 245)
  • Notes (page 253)
  • Works Cited (page 285)
  • Index (page 299)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
LARR 40.1 (2005): 223-236 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/latin_american_research_review/v040/40.1uzendoski.html
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