Non-Humans in Amerindian South America

Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs

Buch | Hardcover

396 Seiten

2018
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-097-3 (ISBN)

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Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies, and presenting ethnographies of non-human entities emerging in ritual, oral tradition, cosmology, shamanism and music, this book offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands.

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.

Juan Javier Rivera Andía is an anthropologist. He has carried out research at various international research centres in Europe, and has published widely on contemporary Andean Quechua indigenous worlds.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: Towards Engaged Ontographies of Animist Developments in Amerindian South America

Juan Javier Rivera Andía

PART I: SECURING BODY AND WEALTH

Chapter 1. On The Wings of Inspiration: Ritual Efficacy, Dancing Flamingos and Divine Mediation among Pastoralists and Herd Animals in Isluga, Chile

Penelope Z. Dransart

Chapter 2. Southern Sacrifice and Northern Sorcery: Mountain Spirits and Encantos in the Peruvian Andes

Marieka Sax

Chapter 3. Marking Out the Bounds of Humanity in Tsachila Ritual

Montserrat Ventura i Oller

Chapter 4. Losing Part of Oneself: Channels of Communication between Humans and Non-Humans

Francis Ferrié

PART II: COHABITATION AND SHARING

Chapter 5. The Inkas Still Exist in the Ucayali Valley: What Can We Learn from Songs

Appendix: List of Inka Items from Song Lyrics

Bernd Brabec de Mori

Chapter 6. On Quechua Relatedness to Contemporary and Ancient Dead

Guillermo Salas Carreño

Chapter 7. “I’m Crying for the Beautiful Skin of the Jaguar”: Laments, Non-Humans and Conviviality among the Ayoreo of the Northern Chaco

Alfonso Otaegui

Chapter 8. Substantiated Wealth: Morality, Local Economy and the Body in Indigenous Amazonia

Minna Opas

PART III: TRANSFORMATIONS AND SLOW TURBULENCES

Chapter 9. Signifying Others: The Musical Management of Social Differences in Amazonia

Jonathan D. Hill

Chapter 10. Inventing a New Verbal Art from Traditional Issues: The Evangelical Songs of the Suruí of Rondônia

Cédric Yvinec

Chapter 11. Prosperity and the Flow of Vital Substances: Relating to Earth Beings in Processes of Mobility in the Southern Peruvian Andes

Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard

Epilogue: The Wild Boar is Out Again and Knows Better than the Jaguar

Mark Münzel

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Erscheinungsdatum	13.12.2018
Reihe/Serie	EASA Series
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78920-097-0 / 1789200970
ISBN-13	978-1-78920-097-3 / 9781789200973
Zustand	Neuware