In Darkness and Secrecy by Neil L Whitehead
Ethnographic study of shamanism in lowland South America, analyzing the relations between the social, political, and historical dynamics of witchcraft and sorcery
“The great merit of this volume is that it amply documents the wide variety of ideas and practices that can be classified as shamanistic in Amazonia and, in so doing, establishes that dark shamanism is an essential element of the worldviews and moral philosophies of peoples of this region”-David Maybury-Lewis, Harvard University “In Darkness and Secrecy takes sectors of Amazonian ethnography to a new level of productive and provocative excellence.”-Norman Whitten, University of Illinois
Neil L. Whitehead is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Among his most recent books are Dark Shamans: KanaimÀ and the Poetics of Violent Death (published by Duke University Press) and Beyond the Visible and the Material: The Amerindianization of Society in the Work of Peter RiviÈre (coedited with Laura Rival).
Robin Wright is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Research in Indigenous Ethnology at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas in Brazil. He is the author of Cosmos, Self, and History in Baniwa Religion: For Those Unborn and the editor of several books in Spanish.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780822333456 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822333457 |
| Title | In Darkness and Secrecy |
| Author | Neil L Whitehead |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 2004-06-03 |
| Number of pages | 277 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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