Jay Courtney Fikes

Unknown Huichol (eBook, ePUB)

Shamans and Immortals, Allies against Chaos

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The culmination of 34 years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, this book offers ground-breaking insights into fundamental principles of Huichol shamanism and ritual. The scope and length of Fikes's research, combined with the depth of his participation with four Huichol shamans, enable him to convey with empathy details of shamanic initiation, methods for diagnosis and treatment of illness, and motives for performing funeral, deer and peyote hunting, and maize-cultivating rituals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 281
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780759120280
• Artikelnr.: 38485359

Autorenporträt

Jay Courtney Fikes teaches social anthropology at Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Turkey.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Confessions Of A Hybrid Anthropologist
Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Shamanic Initiation And Ancestor Veneration
Chapter 4 Chapter 3. Entering The Afterlife
Chapter 5 Chapter 4. Interdependence And Continuity In Huichol Cosmology
Chapter 6 Chapter 5. Seeking Sacred Indexes To Celebrate Life's Logos
Chapter 7 Appendix A. A Huichol Woman's Burial
Chapter 8 Appendix B. Funeral Ritual Song Excerpts
Chapter 9 Appendix C. Deer Hunting And Reincarnating Rituals
Chapter 10 Appendix D. Death and Mourning Among the Huichol
Chapter 11 Endnotes
Chapter 12 Bibliography