Wĩtsixuki: desejo alimentar, doença e morte entre os Wauja da Amazônia meridional
Witsixuki: food desire, illness and death among the Wauja of Southeastern Amazonia. This article is a Wauja ethnography of illness as an ontological mode of the transformation of sick humans into « bicho » (animal/spirit). I describe how unsatisfied desire for food, alterated bodily states, extreme...
Saved in:
Main Author: | Aristóteles Barcelos Neto |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Société des américanistes
2007-12-01
|
Series: | Journal de la Société des Américanistes |
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/6533 |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Similar Items
-
O universo visual dos xamãs wauja (Alto Xingu)
by: Aristóteles Barcelos Neto
Published: (2001-01-01) -
Dream Knowledge – Understanding the Dreamworld Utilizing the Medicine Wheel
by: John T. Ward
Published: (2023-12-01) -
Les cours d’eau dans les incantations chamaniques des Indiens yucuna (Amazonie colombienne)
by: Laurent Fontaine
Published: (2011-10-01) -
L’ayahuasca et son ombre. L’apprentissage de la possession dans un centre chamanique d’Amazonie péruvienne
by: David Dupuis
Published: (2018-12-01) -
La divine comédie dans les Andes ou les tribulations du mort dans son voyage vers l’au-delà
by: Valérie Robin Azevedo
Published: (2004-01-01)