"Indian disease": on the pathogenic principle of alterity and the modes of transformation in an Amazonian cosmology

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During my field work among the Wauja Indians of the Upper Xingu, I collected several  narratives about local people who had suffered animal transformations when they were severely ill. Most of them returned to their human condition after the attention of highly specialized shamans and ritua...

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Autor: Barcelos Neto, Aristóteles
Formato: artículo
Fecha de Publicación:2006
Institución:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repositorio:Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Lenguaje:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistaspuc:article/2088
Enlace del recurso:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/2088
Nivel de acceso:acceso abierto
Materia:Amazonia
cosmological transformations
illness
notions of animality and humanity
Wauja Indians
Amazonía
Enfermedad
Indios Wauja
Nociones de humanidad y animalidad
Transformaciones cosmológicas
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Sumario:During my field work among the Wauja Indians of the Upper Xingu, I collected several  narratives about local people who had suffered animal transformations when they were severely ill. Most of them returned to their human condition after the attention of highly specialized shamans and ritual singers and dancers. This article describes the series of transformations between humans and non-humans in  the Wauja cosmology and discusses how the attributes of humanity, animality and monstrosity are distributes and set in relation.
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