Rainforest Shamans: Essays on the Tukano Indians of the Northwest AmazonAnthropologist Reichel-Dolmatoff spent most of his working life among tribes living in the vast rainforests of the Colombian Northwest Amazon. This collection of essays considers the Tukano Indians and their society. Many of the essays are concerned with the role of shamanism in Tukanoan society, including initiation practices and their curing spells, which show the Tukanoan concepts of illness and its cure. Other essays describe their concepts of universal energies and the ways they can be balanced, and the ecological dimensions of their world-view. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
DESANA ANIMAL CATEGORIES FOOD RESTRICTIONS | 23 |
A HUNTERS TALE FROM THE COLOMBIAN NORTHWEST AMAZON | 111 |
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