César E. Giraldo Herrera

Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Innovatively brings together microbiology and Amerindian shamanic practice, with a view to interrogating both as equals

Intertwines biocultural and ethnohistorical approaches

Providing a fresh comparative exploration sure to be of interest to anthropologists, historians and social scientists of medicine, science, and biology

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319713182
• Artikelnr.: 52940550

Autorenporträt

César E. Giraldo Herrera, biologist and social anthropologist, is the Victoria Maltby Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College and an Associate Researcher at the Institute for Science Innovation and Society (InSIS), School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME), University of Oxford, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Colonising and decolonising ontologies.- Part 1: Amerindian shamanism.- 2. (Mis)Understanding shamanism and animism.- 3. First contacts with Amerindian shamans and their "spirits".- 4. Syncretic ontologies of the microbial-masters of game.- Part 2: Shamanic microscopy, perceiving cellular souls and microbial spirits.- 5. Shamanic epistemologies.- 6. Neuropsychological naturalistic explanations of shamanic visions.- 7. The cavern of the eye: seeing through the retina.- 8. Entoptic microscopy.- Part 3: Biosocial Ethnohistory of Syphilis and Related Diseases.- 9. French malaise in the Taíno myths of origin.- 10. The spotted Sun and the blemished Moon, Nahuatl views on treponematoses.- 11. The West, Syphilis and the other treponematoses.- 12. Threading worlds together.

Rezensionen

"In this book, and related publications, he makes excellent use of a sweep of literature about Caribbean and Lowland South American Amerindians as well as about medicine, epidemiology, and biology." (Graham Harvey, Body and Religion, Vol. 3 (1), 2019)

"The book impresses by the breadth of its scope, the diverse literature it builds on, and the innovative bridges it establishes with research areas that have often been off-putting to social anthropologists. The hypothesis it explores is bold and imaginative, and it most certainly adds a new voice to microbial anthropology." (Germain Meuelemans, Anthropological Notebooks, Vol. 25 (1), 2019)