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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| 格式: | Print 图书 |
| 语言: | English |
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New York, NY Oxford
Berghahn
2019
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EASA series (37)
Year: 2019 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| 版: | First published |
| 丛编: | EASA series
37 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Lateinamerika
/ 美洲原住民
/ 宗教
/ 宇宙论
/ 宗教仪式
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| 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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Table of Contents Blurb |
| 总结: | "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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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1789200970 |