The Living Ancestors : : Shamanism, Cosmos and Cultural Change among the Yanomami of the Upper Orinoco / / Zeljko Jokic.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Jokic, Zeljko,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; The master shapori Ruweweriwë and his disciple Arawë singing in front of the ceremonial mast – Mountain of the ancestral hekura spirits --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Preface and Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Life on Top of the Old Sky: Yanomami Habitat, Ethnographic Setting and Local Histories --; Chapter 2. Inside the Boa’s Abdomen: The Yanomami Cosmos --; Chapter 3. Hekura, the Body and Illness --; Chapter 4. Hekuraprai: Corporeal Cosmogenesis --; Chapter 5. Oneiric Encounters --; Chapter 6. Shamanic Battlefield: The Pendulum of Life and Death --; Chapter 7. Two Pathways to Finding a Cure: Biomedical and Shamanic Treatment in the Life of Yanomami --; Chapter 8. Return of the Ancestors: The All-pervading Shawara, the End of the World and the Beginning of a New Epoch --; Postscript. Recent Developments --; Glossary of Yanomami Terms --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782388180; 9783110998238
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782388180?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Zeljko Jokic.

This phenomenologically oriented ethnography focuses on experiential aspects of Yanomami shamanism, including shamanistic activities in the context of cultural change. The author interweaves ethnographic material with theoretical components of a holographic principle, or the idea that the “part is equal to the whole,” which is embedded in the nature of the Yanomami macrocosm, human dwelling, multiple-soul components, and shamans’ relationships with embodied spirit-helpers. This book fills an important gap in the regional study of Yanomami people, and, on a broader scale, enriches understanding of this ancient phenomenon by focusing on the consciousness involved in shamanism through firsthand experiential involvement.