The book presents the dynamics associated with the transformations and
revitalization of the shamanic universe and strategies used to negotiate with
the invisible beings. Making a rich contribution to the ethnology of Latin
American lowlands, it demonstrates that ethnography is a social relationship.
The text makes evident that the author, upon entering and leaving the
territory, also enters and leaves the canons of anthropology. In the unfolding
of the narrative, shaped as an academic autobiography, the details of the
fieldwork experience flourish and result in timely reflections.
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Author’s prologue
- Chapter I. Introduction
- Chapter II. The Siona Language
- Chapter III. History and Population
- Chapter IV. Social and Economic Life
- Chapter V. Family and Life Cycle
- Chapter VI. Political and Social Organization
- Chapter VII. Cosmology and the Occult Worlds
- Chapter VIII. Yajé, the Medicine: ‘iko
- Chapter IX. Sickness and Dying: dau
- Chapter X. Siona Medicine through Narrative
- Chapter XI. Searching for Resolution: Three Case Studies
- Chapter XII. Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Appendix I: Manuscripts concerning Western Tucanoan tribes found in the archives of Centro de Investigaciones Lingüísticas y Etnográficas de la Amazonía Colombiana (CILEAC), Bogotá, Colombia
- Appendix II Missionary Stations and Towns on the Putumayo River 1600-1900: Summary of Sources and Map
- Appendix III Yajé Face Designs with Identifications by Ricardo Yaiguaje
- About the author
- References cited
- Index
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