Through continuous patterns of travel when hunting, visiting other settlements, trekking and foraging, the Arawak-speaking Apurinã of southwestern Amazonia are able to access resources, new power and skills, and knowledge about other beings. In the course of the trips, however, certain trees, stones and types of earth formation are approached with the utmost caution as the spirits of these places may afflict the unwary with their invisible poisonous arrows, causing illnesses or even deaths, if not removed by shamanic skills. Similar illnesses are also related to moiety food taboos, a danger which highlights the crucial elements of kinship construction among the Apurinã. Yet immobility can also be dangerous as stability can make the body ill...
What does it mean to become an other ? Shamanism and interethnic contact in Brazilian Amazonia Juxta...
Santa María de Mavacal, in Venezuelan Amazonia, is a multiethnic and multilingual community in the b...
We examined the cosmology and ethnomedical beliefs of the Penan hunter-gatherers of Brunei Darussala...
Through continuous patterns of travel when hunting, visiting other settlements, trekking and foragin...
À la lumière de la récente production ethnographique sur les peuples indigènes arawá et de la recher...
ABSTRACT: The wayuu are an Indian people of the Arawak linguistic family which lives in the Guajira ...
Este trabalho visa a analisar as maneiras concretas e abstratas com que os Jarawara lidam com as rel...
Los indígenas de la Amazonia y la Orinoquia colombiana usan más de 54 especies para preparar los cur...
“The Trumai are one of several indigenous peoples of central Brazil, living in small, ethnically bas...
Abstract Personhood and human-spirit relations among the Yuracaré of the Bolivian Amazon. By Annica...
Se presenta aquí los resultados del trabajo realizado sobre las implicaciones que el cuerpo posee en...
The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of A...
This article looks at what origin stories teach about the world and what kind of material presence t...
This article concerns a little explored group in the northern Peruvian Amazon called the Chayahuita ...
An Amazonian indigenous people belonging to the Tupi-Guarani language family, the Awa-Guajá are the ...
What does it mean to become an other ? Shamanism and interethnic contact in Brazilian Amazonia Juxta...
Santa María de Mavacal, in Venezuelan Amazonia, is a multiethnic and multilingual community in the b...
We examined the cosmology and ethnomedical beliefs of the Penan hunter-gatherers of Brunei Darussala...
Through continuous patterns of travel when hunting, visiting other settlements, trekking and foragin...
À la lumière de la récente production ethnographique sur les peuples indigènes arawá et de la recher...
ABSTRACT: The wayuu are an Indian people of the Arawak linguistic family which lives in the Guajira ...
Este trabalho visa a analisar as maneiras concretas e abstratas com que os Jarawara lidam com as rel...
Los indígenas de la Amazonia y la Orinoquia colombiana usan más de 54 especies para preparar los cur...
“The Trumai are one of several indigenous peoples of central Brazil, living in small, ethnically bas...
Abstract Personhood and human-spirit relations among the Yuracaré of the Bolivian Amazon. By Annica...
Se presenta aquí los resultados del trabajo realizado sobre las implicaciones que el cuerpo posee en...
The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of A...
This article looks at what origin stories teach about the world and what kind of material presence t...
This article concerns a little explored group in the northern Peruvian Amazon called the Chayahuita ...
An Amazonian indigenous people belonging to the Tupi-Guarani language family, the Awa-Guajá are the ...
What does it mean to become an other ? Shamanism and interethnic contact in Brazilian Amazonia Juxta...
Santa María de Mavacal, in Venezuelan Amazonia, is a multiethnic and multilingual community in the b...
We examined the cosmology and ethnomedical beliefs of the Penan hunter-gatherers of Brunei Darussala...