Non-Humans in Amerindian South America : : Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs / / ed. by Juan Javier Rivera Andía.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Andía, Juan Javier Rivera,; Carreño, Guillermo Salas,; Dransart, Penelope Z.,; Ferrié, Francis,; Hill, Jonathan D.,; Mori, Bernd Brabec de,; Münzel, Mark,; Oller, Montserrat Ventura i,; Opas, Minna,; Otaegui, Alfonso,; Sax, Marieka,; Yvinec, Cédric,; Ødegaard, Cecilie Vindal,
• HerausgeberIn: Andía, Juan Javier Rivera,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: EASA Series ; 37
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (396 p.)

Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies whose lives and worlds are undergoing processes of transformation, adaptation, and deterioration, this volume offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands. The resulting ethnographies – depicting non-human entities emerging in ritual, oral tradition, cosmology, shamanism and music – explore the conditions and effects of unequally ranked life forms, increased extraction of resources, continuous migration to urban centers, and the (usually) forced incorporation of current expressions of modernity into indigenous societies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Maps, Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Towards Engaged Ontographies of Animist Developments in Amerindian South America -- Part I Securing Body and Wealth -- 1 On the Wings of Inspiration Ritual Efficacy, Dancing Flamingos and Divine Mediation among Pastoralists and Herd Animals in Isluga, Chile -- 2 Southern Sacrifice and Northern Sorcery: Mountain Spirits and Encantos in the Peruvian Andes -- 3 Marking Out the Bounds of Humanity in Tsachila Ritual -- 4 Losing Part of Oneself Channels of Communication between Humans and Non-humans -- Part II Cohabitation and Sharing -- 5 The Inkas Still Exist in the Ucayali Valley: What We Can Learn from Songs -- 6 On Quechua Relatedness to Contemporary and Ancient Dead -- 7 ‘I’m Crying for the Beautiful Skin of the Jaguar’ Laments, Non-humans and Conviviality among the Ayoreo of the Northern Chaco -- 8 Substantiated Wealth: Morality, Local Economy and the Body in Indigenous Amazonia -- Part III Transformations and Slow Turbulences -- 9 Signifying Others The Musical Management of Social Differences in Amazonia -- 10 Inventing a New Verbal Art from Traditional Issues: The Evangelical Songs of the Suruí of Rondônia -- 11 Prosperity and the Flow of Vital Substances: Relating to Earth Beings in Processes of Mobility in the Southern Peruvian Andes -- Epilogue: The Wild Boar Is Out Again and Knows Better than the Jaguar -- Index