This article gives an overview of key components of the Piaroa shamanic training and initiation complex. While anthropologists have given accounts of how Piaroa people describe the initiatory rites undertaken by shamans, the ongoing training involved in preparing for initiation has received comparatively little attention. Piaroa shamanic training is ongoing, and punctuated by three painful initiatory ordeals. Piaroa shamans specialise in the use of plant hallucinogens to attain visions interpreted according to a dynamic matrix of psycho-social forces and mytho-historical templates. Direct experience of the parameters and technologies of consciousness employed by Piaroa shamans can lead to ethnographic locutions of the functional, experienti...
The Yanomami people of Brazil and Venezuela have been an integral part of anthropological debates, a...
Se presenta aquí los resultados del trabajo realizado sobre las implicaciones que el cuerpo posee en...
Ethnopharmacological relevance: Indigenous groups of the Amazon have developed intricate methods f...
This article gives an overview of key components of the Piaroa shamanic training and initiation comp...
Shamans of the Piaroa ethnic group (southern Venezuela) conceive of power in terms of knowledge deri...
The Amazonian cosmos is a battlefield where beauty is possible but violent chaos rules. As a result,...
The following article presents a critical and expansive analysis of shamanism, articulating three mo...
An overemphasis on the interpretation of language has impeded understanding of the cultural and cogn...
El concepto del shamanismo es presentado, tanto a partir de las investigaciones transculturales como...
International audienceShamanism, considered as a psycho-social structure and as an expression of an ...
La formación multidisciplinaria es muy importante para eliminar la repetición derivativa en cualquie...
In this dissertation I explore the convergence of epistemologies of healing between traditional Amaz...
This article reviews the origins of the concept of the shaman and the principal sources of controver...
The three pieces collectively address the universal human challenge of psychosocial behaviour and di...
Xinguano shamanism has great freedom and epistemic richness, is a radical space of imagination and c...
The Yanomami people of Brazil and Venezuela have been an integral part of anthropological debates, a...
Se presenta aquí los resultados del trabajo realizado sobre las implicaciones que el cuerpo posee en...
Ethnopharmacological relevance: Indigenous groups of the Amazon have developed intricate methods f...
This article gives an overview of key components of the Piaroa shamanic training and initiation comp...
Shamans of the Piaroa ethnic group (southern Venezuela) conceive of power in terms of knowledge deri...
The Amazonian cosmos is a battlefield where beauty is possible but violent chaos rules. As a result,...
The following article presents a critical and expansive analysis of shamanism, articulating three mo...
An overemphasis on the interpretation of language has impeded understanding of the cultural and cogn...
El concepto del shamanismo es presentado, tanto a partir de las investigaciones transculturales como...
International audienceShamanism, considered as a psycho-social structure and as an expression of an ...
La formación multidisciplinaria es muy importante para eliminar la repetición derivativa en cualquie...
In this dissertation I explore the convergence of epistemologies of healing between traditional Amaz...
This article reviews the origins of the concept of the shaman and the principal sources of controver...
The three pieces collectively address the universal human challenge of psychosocial behaviour and di...
Xinguano shamanism has great freedom and epistemic richness, is a radical space of imagination and c...
The Yanomami people of Brazil and Venezuela have been an integral part of anthropological debates, a...
Se presenta aquí los resultados del trabajo realizado sobre las implicaciones que el cuerpo posee en...
Ethnopharmacological relevance: Indigenous groups of the Amazon have developed intricate methods f...