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Anaconda-becoming: Huni Kuin image-songs, an Amerindian relational aesthetics [PDF]

open access: yesHorizontes Antropologicos, 2018
After depicting the contemporary scene of Huni Kuin ayahuasca shamanism and artistic agency, I analyze a selection of image-songs from this ritual. The songs unveil the workings of embodied perception and synesthesia, that is, the transductions of bodily
Els Lagrou
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Shamanic Cinema and Amerindian Perspectivism

2023
Se explora un cruce entre la noción de cine chamánico de Raúl Ruiz y de perspectivismo amerindio de Eduardo Viveiros de Castro para sostener la subversión de la función del aparato de perspectiva, elemento esencial para la constitución del sujeto y del mundo en la modernidad, en sus respectivos roles de agente y paciente.
Landaeta, Patricio, Zoro, Javier
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First Contacts with Amerindian Shamans and Their ‘Spirits’

2018
This chapter examines two early encounters with Amerinds in the Caribbean: the Taino and their closely related enemies the Callinago, with their ‘shamans’ respectively the buhities and the boyaicou, and the entities with which they dealt. It explores the descriptions of the zemes, entities which missionaries translated as gods, demons, or evil spirits,
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The Village, The State, and Amerindian Shamanic Thought: Becoming Makushi in the Hinterland of Guyana

2016
This dissertation presents a comparison between the cultural representations of Coastlanders and Amerindians in Guyana. This is done by contrasting Makushi practices and understandings of sociality, politics, violence, and the power to kill with non-Amerindian practices and understandings.
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The contagion of images: embedded voices and sensory apparatuses in an Amerindian shamanic ritual

2018
This article takes an Amazonian example to question one of the main issues of the shamanic ritual utterance: the operation of composition-translation that the ritual specialist has to carry out to “represent” the invisibles during his performance, and the sensory apparatuses it implies.
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