Sorcery in Amazonia : A Comparative Exploration of Magical Assault

Virgínia Amaral

ISBN 10: 3786129304 / ISBN 13: 9783786129301

Published by Gebrüder Mann Verlag Mär 2025, 2025

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Neuware - Schamanismus ist in der Anthropologie Amazoniens ein ausdifferenziertes und umfangreiches Forschungsfeld. Aber nur vereinzelt beschäftigen sich ethnografische Publikationen mit magischen Praktiken. Der Sammelband zeigt die große Bedeutung von Hexerei und Magie im Leben und in der Kosmologie vieler Menschen in verschiedenen Teilen des südamerikanischen Tieflands. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt auf lokalen ontologischen Rahmenbedingungen, Fragen der Verkörperung und der damit verbundenen Verwendung von Klängen in Amazonien. Ethische Ansätze zur Erforschung von Magie werden ebenso beleuchtet wie die Ethik von magischen Praktiken und Hexerei-Anschuldigungen inner- halb lokaler Gemeinschaften.Sprachen: Englisch, Spanisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sorcery in Amazonia : A Comparative Exploration of Magical Assault
• Publisher: Gebrüder Mann Verlag Mär 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3786129304
• ISBN 13: 9783786129301
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

Although shamanism has become a well-developed and expansive topic within the anthropology of Amazonia, the ethnographic literature focusing on sorcery has been sporadic and sparse by comparison. This has particularly been the case since the death of Neil L. Whitehead in 2012. However, as this volume shows, sorcery is often of great importance in the lives and cosmologies of many people in different parts of lowland South America. Across the region, it takes a variety of forms and involves a diverse range of practices. This edited volume comparatively re-examines the topic of sorcery in Amazonia with particular emphases on local ontological frameworks, issues of embodiment, and related uses of sound. It highlights ethical approaches to research concerning sorcery and discusses the ethics within local communities of sorcery practices and accusations.

About the Author

James Andrew Whitaker is an assistant professor of anthropology at Troy University, an honorary research fellow at the University of St Andrews, and affiliated faculty at Mississippi State University. His research focuses primarily on ethnohistory, ontologies, and historical memory in Amazonia and West Africa. He is the author of The Shamanism of Eco-Tourism: History and Ontology among the Makushi in Guyana (Cambridge, 2024) and co-editor of Climatic and Ecological Change in the Americas: A Perspective from Historical Ecology (Routledge, 2023). Matthias Lewy is a musicologist and cultural anthropologist. He works as a professor at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. For more than 20 years he has been working in collaborative research, archival, and educational projects with the Pemon (Venezuela) and more recently with the Aparai-Wayana in Brazil. As a collaborative professor at the University of Brasilia (Brazil), he supervises Indigenous researchers in the Master's program PPG/MUS - PROGRAMA DE POS-GRADUACAO EM MUSICA. Tarryl Janik recently received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research focuses on the ethnology of the Guianas and international religious movements involving ayahuasca. It emphasizes the connections between power and shamanism.