Amerindian socio-cosmologies between the Andes, Amazonia and Mesoamerica : toward an anthropological understanding of the Isthmo-Colombian Area /

Table of Contents: “…Case studies: Change and continuity in shamanic and priestly practices and the conception of things, humans, plants and animals -- Parents who own lives: Relations and persons among a Chibchan group in Colombia / Jose Arenas Gómez -- Tuwancha, "the One Who Knows": Specialists and specialized knowledge in transhuman communication among the Sokorpa Yukpa of the Serranía del Perijá, Colombia / Anne Goletz -- The Wounaan haaihí jëeu nam ritual with the K'ugwiu: reinforcing benevolence and preventing calamity / Chindío Peña Ismare, Julia Velásquez Runk, Rito Ismare Peña and Chenier Carpio Opua -- Things, life, and humans in Gunayala (Panama): Talking about Molas and Nuchus inside and outside Guna Society / Mònica Martínez Mauri -- Plant ontologies among the Bribri of Talamanca, Costa Rica / Schabnam Kaviany -- The place of livestock in human-nonhuman relationship among the Wayuu / Alessandro Mancuso -- Murderous spirits: Shamanic Interpretation of Armed violence, suicide, and exhumation in the economy of death of the Emberá (Chocó, Antioquia, Colombia) / Anne-Marie Losonczy.…”
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