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By Neil L. Whitehead

ISBN-10: 0822329883

ISBN-13: 9780822329886

On the little-known and darker aspect of shamanism there exists an historical kind of sorcery known as kanaimà, a convention nonetheless saw one of the Amerindians of the highlands of Guyana, Venezuela, and Brazil that contains the ritual stalking, mutilation, lingering loss of life, and intake of human sufferers. straight away a memoir of cultural come upon and an ethnographic and historic research, this e-book deals a sustained, intimate examine kanaimà, its practitioners, their sufferers, and the explanations they provide for his or her actions.

Neil L. Whitehead tells of his personal involvement with kanaimà—including an try to kill him with poison—and relates the private tales of kanaimà shamans, their strength sufferers, and the sufferers’ households. He then is going directly to talk about the old emergence of kanaimà, describing how, within the face of successive smooth colonizing forces—missionaries, rubber gatherers, miners, and improvement agencies—the perform has turn into an statement of local autonomy. His research explores the ways that kanaimà mediates either nationwide and overseas affects on local peoples within the quarter and considers the importance of kanaimà for present money owed of shamanism and spiritual trust and for theories of conflict and violence.

Kanaimà seems to be the following as a part of the broader lexicon of rebellious terror and unique horror—alongside the cannibal, vampire, and zombie—that haunts the western mind's eye. Dark Shamans broadens discussions of violence and of the illustration of primitive savagery through recasting either within the gentle of present debates on modernity and globalization.

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