In:
Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, Equinox Publishing, Vol. 10, No. 2 ( 2016-08-01), p. 170-188
Abstract:
Indigenous prophet movements in the Americas have historically engaged the most threatening and dangerous Other, the White Man. The savants of the Northwest Amazon region of South America have mostly sought to defy the destructive power of the White Man’s knowledge by disclosing hidden, internal sources of conmict and conserving religious traditions. A long succession of prophetic leaders from the mid-nineteenth century to the present has sustained the continuity of ancestral traditions even at great risk to the leaders’ lives. I take a multiplex, interpretive approach to these shamanic traditions, grounded in the exegesis of their ancestral practices.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1749-4915
,
1749-4907
DOI:
10.1558/jsrnc.v10i2.27247
Language:
English
Publisher:
Equinox Publishing
Publication Date:
2016
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2395657-4
SSG:
0
SSG:
1
