Original work both in terms of author’s chosen theoretical framework (phenomenology-holography) and the empirical richness of ethnographic detail through which the former is executed. Captivating and original ethnographic content and its articulation through conceptual and interpretive integration. Experiential-Participatory approach to fieldwork, providing some original insights and deep understanding of Yanomami shamanism and cosmology from the "inside". Articulate, fluent and incisive writing style, yet plain enough to attract a wide range of academic and non-academic public interest in the subject.…mehr
Original work both in terms of author’s chosen theoretical framework (phenomenology-holography) and the empirical richness of ethnographic detail through which the former is executed. Captivating and original ethnographic content and its articulation through conceptual and interpretive integration. Experiential-Participatory approach to fieldwork, providing some original insights and deep understanding of Yanomami shamanism and cosmology from the "inside". Articulate, fluent and incisive writing style, yet plain enough to attract a wide range of academic and non-academic public interest in the subject.
Zeljko Jokic received his PhD in Social Anthropology in 2004 at the University of Sydney. Since then he lectured at various universities, conducted a short-term fieldwork in Siberia and worked as a Research Assistant at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. He also spent several years working as a consultant for the Inter-American Organization for the Elimination of Onchocerciasis at the Amazonian Centre for Investigation and Control of Tropical Diseases, Puerto Ayacucho, Venezuela. Currently, he is a Policy Officer at the Health and Medical Research Office of the Australian Government Department of Health.
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List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction * Shamanism: Origins and Key Features * Yanomami Shamanism: A Cross-Cultural Perspective * The Book's Subject Matter and its Guiding Principles * Fieldwork Setting and Methodology * The Book's Outline Chapter 1. Life on Top of the Old Sky: Yanomami Habitat, Ethnographic Setting and Local Histories * Yanomami Habitat * Historical Migratory Movements and Encounters * The Sweeping Winds of Change and its Consequences * Platanal and Sheroana-theri at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Chapter 2. Inside the Boa's Abdomen: The Yanomami Cosmos * Holographic Totality of the Yanomami Cosmos * No Patapi tëhë: The Ever-present Mythical Time of Creation * Origin Myths Chapter 3. Hekura, Body and Illness * Shamans and Hekura * Epena: Transformative Substance and Aliment for Hekura * Shamanism in Myths and in Contemporary Context * Yanomami Conception of a Person and Causes of Illness Chapter 4. Hekuraprai: Corporeal Cosmogenesis * Summary of the Initiatory Ordeal * Transformation into Hekura: Day-by-Day Process * Cosmic Body and its Dynamism * First Trance: Re-experience of Death and the Beginning of Hekuramou Chapter 5. Oneiric Encounters * Hekuramou and Expansion of Shamanistic Powers * Dreams and Shamanism * Dream Lucidity and the Transitional States of Dream Consciousness * Dreams, Illness and Healing Chapter 6. Shamanic Battlefield: The Pendulum of Life and Death * Shapori's New Identity and Social Obligation on the Intracommunal Level * The Dialectics between Defensive and Offensive Hekuramou * Body Intrusion and the Dynamics of the Cosmic Flow * Shaporimou and Intersubjective Knowledge Diffusion Chapter 7. Two Pathways to Curing and in Between: Biomedical and Shamanic Treatment in the Life of Yanomami * Shamanism and Biomedicine: Compatibility and Differences * Dynamics of Doctor-Shapori-Patient Interaction * Yanomami Responses to Diarrhoea, Malaria and Respiratory Infections Chapter 8. Return of the Ancestors: The All-pervading Shawara, The End of the World and the Beginning of a New Epoch * The Origin of Shawara Epidemics * Further Expansion of the Shawara Concept * The End of the World and the Beginning of Another Cosmic Cycle Postscript: Recent Developments Glossary of Yanomami Terms Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction * Shamanism: Origins and Key Features * Yanomami Shamanism: A Cross-Cultural Perspective * The Book's Subject Matter and its Guiding Principles * Fieldwork Setting and Methodology * The Book's Outline Chapter 1. Life on Top of the Old Sky: Yanomami Habitat, Ethnographic Setting and Local Histories * Yanomami Habitat * Historical Migratory Movements and Encounters * The Sweeping Winds of Change and its Consequences * Platanal and Sheroana-theri at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Chapter 2. Inside the Boa's Abdomen: The Yanomami Cosmos * Holographic Totality of the Yanomami Cosmos * No Patapi tëhë: The Ever-present Mythical Time of Creation * Origin Myths Chapter 3. Hekura, Body and Illness * Shamans and Hekura * Epena: Transformative Substance and Aliment for Hekura * Shamanism in Myths and in Contemporary Context * Yanomami Conception of a Person and Causes of Illness Chapter 4. Hekuraprai: Corporeal Cosmogenesis * Summary of the Initiatory Ordeal * Transformation into Hekura: Day-by-Day Process * Cosmic Body and its Dynamism * First Trance: Re-experience of Death and the Beginning of Hekuramou Chapter 5. Oneiric Encounters * Hekuramou and Expansion of Shamanistic Powers * Dreams and Shamanism * Dream Lucidity and the Transitional States of Dream Consciousness * Dreams, Illness and Healing Chapter 6. Shamanic Battlefield: The Pendulum of Life and Death * Shapori's New Identity and Social Obligation on the Intracommunal Level * The Dialectics between Defensive and Offensive Hekuramou * Body Intrusion and the Dynamics of the Cosmic Flow * Shaporimou and Intersubjective Knowledge Diffusion Chapter 7. Two Pathways to Curing and in Between: Biomedical and Shamanic Treatment in the Life of Yanomami * Shamanism and Biomedicine: Compatibility and Differences * Dynamics of Doctor-Shapori-Patient Interaction * Yanomami Responses to Diarrhoea, Malaria and Respiratory Infections Chapter 8. Return of the Ancestors: The All-pervading Shawara, The End of the World and the Beginning of a New Epoch * The Origin of Shawara Epidemics * Further Expansion of the Shawara Concept * The End of the World and the Beginning of Another Cosmic Cycle Postscript: Recent Developments Glossary of Yanomami Terms Bibliography Index
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