Amazonian Ethnology
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Psychological Anthropology, Experimental philosophy, Neuroanthropology, Social Cognition, Cultural Psychology, and 29 moreShamanism, Metacognition, Neurophilosophy, Amazonia, Religious Cognition, Cognitive Science of Religion, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Ethnobiology, Cognitive Anthropology, Contemporary animism, Social cognition (Psychology), Anthropology of Consciousness, Culture and Cognition, Anthropomorphism, Animism, Cognitive Style, Naturalized Epistemology, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Tim Ingold, Ethnopsychology, Indigenous Psychology, Cultural Neuroscience, Philippe Descola, Amazonian Ethnology, Predictive coding, Probabilistic reasoning, Bayesian Cognition, Culture and Self, and Dimitri Karadimasedit
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History, Ethnohistory, Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, and 75 moreIndigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Social Anthropology, Self and Identity, Social Sciences, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Social Identity, Colonial America, Cosmology (Anthropology), Amerindian Studies, Amerindian Cosmologies, Bolivian studies, Indigenous Politics, Identity (Culture), Race and Ethnicity, Oral history, Indigenous Knowledge, History of Missions, Cultural Identity, Brazil, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Amazonia, Ethnology, Bolivia, Peru, Amazonian Archaeology, Social History, Ethnic Conflict, Archaeology of ethnicity, Anthropology of Borders, Race and ethnicity (Anthropology), Indigenous Peoples, Representation of Others, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnicity, Latin American Colonial Literature, Ethnicity & Ethnic Conflicts, Etnohistoria, Identity, Colonial Latin American History, Historia, Representation, Amazonian Studies, Indigenous knowledge systems, Borders and Frontiers, Interethnic Relations, Etnologia, Anthropologie, Ciencias Sociales, Etnicidade, Missions, Antropologia, Etnografia, Etnoecologia, Etnohistoria, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Alteridade, Borders and Borderlands, Amazonian indigenous peoples, Etnicidad, latinamerican Studies, Antropología histórica, Etnología, Relaciones interétnicas, Etnologia Indígena, Historical and Comparative Sociology, Ethnicity and National Identity, Ethnic politics, Relações interétnicas, Self Representation, Ethnonyms, Bolivian History, Social Classifications, Historia Colonial De América Latina, Interethnic Interaction, and Panoan Languagesedit
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Download "En este trabajo se detallan algunos aspectos centrales del inicio de la arqueología guaraní en la Argentina, la construcción de la unidad arqueológica homónima y las propiedades asociadas a este registro, particularmente de aquel que... more
"En este trabajo se detallan algunos aspectos centrales del inicio de la arqueología guaraní en la
Argentina, la construcción de la unidad arqueológica homónima y las propiedades asociadas a este
registro, particularmente de aquel que se encuentra en el extremo meridional de su distribución. Se
analizan algunas de las similitudes y diferencias que se observan tanto a nivel suprarregional como
local, enfatizando aquellas características que lo distinguen de otras unidades arqueológicas del área.
Discutimos, asimismo, algunas críticas relacionadas con la construcción del etnónimo exoétnico Guaraní
y su relación con el registro arqueológico asociado, acentuando la necesidad de contar con registros bien
analizados antes que con generalizaciones descriptivas."
Argentina, la construcción de la unidad arqueológica homónima y las propiedades asociadas a este
registro, particularmente de aquel que se encuentra en el extremo meridional de su distribución. Se
analizan algunas de las similitudes y diferencias que se observan tanto a nivel suprarregional como
local, enfatizando aquellas características que lo distinguen de otras unidades arqueológicas del área.
Discutimos, asimismo, algunas críticas relacionadas con la construcción del etnónimo exoétnico Guaraní
y su relación con el registro arqueológico asociado, acentuando la necesidad de contar con registros bien
analizados antes que con generalizaciones descriptivas."
Este artigo investiga algumas relações entre xamanismo, poder político e feitiçaria no Alto Xingu, a partir da descrição da trajetória de um xamã daquela região. Trata-se de um homem que passou por uma experiência atípica de transformação... more
Este artigo investiga algumas relações entre xamanismo, poder político e feitiçaria no Alto Xingu, a partir da descrição da trajetória de um xamã daquela região. Trata-se de um homem que passou por uma experiência atípica de transformação em xamã, marcada por uma aliança com “espíritos” muito poderosos e pela incorporação de elementos do cristianismo. Em seu período de ascensão, ele foi considerado “mestre” dos xamãs em muitas aldeias da região, introduziu novas práticas de cura e ensaiou, em sua aldeia de origem, o exercício de um tipo ambíguo de influência marcada ao mesmo tempo pelo respeito e pela coerção. O objetivo deste trabalho é reunir elementos que permitam compreender esta trajetória que, apesar de peculiar, reúne e esclarece aspectos importantes das dinâmicas políticas alto-xinguanas.
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Ethnohistory, Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, and 19 moreEthnography, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Indigenous Research Methodologies, Amerindian Cosmologies, Bolivian studies, Race and Ethnicity, Autoethnography, Autobiography, Indigenous Knowledge, Amazonia, Ethnology, Bolivia, Indigenous Peoples, Ethnicity, Collaborative Autoethnography, Etnologia, Amazonian Ethnology, and Anthropology of Lowland South Americaedit
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Cultural History, Ethnohistory, Cultural Studies, Social Theory, Ethnic Studies, and 96 moreLatin American Studies, Comparative Literature, Anthropology, Anthropological Linguistics, Ethnolinguistics, Literacy, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Social Anthropology, Self and Identity, Translation Studies, Languages and Linguistics, Social Sciences, Social Identity, Literature, Linguistic Anthropology, Indigenous education, Auto-ethnography, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Amerindian Studies, Indigenous Research Methodologies, Amerindian Cosmologies, Brazilian Studies, Orality-Literacy Studies, Anthropological Linguistics (Languages And Linguistics), Cultural Theory, Fieldwork in Anthropology, Identity (Culture), Race and Ethnicity, Autoethnography, Oral history, Culture, Ethnolinguistic, Applied Linguistics, New literacy studies, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Literature, Comparative Linguistics, Brazil, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Amazonia, Ethnology, Peru, Latin American literature, Amazonian Languages, Linguistics, Archaeology of ethnicity, Linguistic ethnography, Indigenous Peoples, Peruvian History, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnicity, Lingüística, Etnohistoria, Colonial Latin American History, Oral History and Memory, Amazonian Studies, Borders and Frontiers, Interethnic Relations, Ciências Sociais, Patrimonio Cultural, Antropología cultural, Oral History and Documentary, Etnologia, South American Indians, Antropología Social, Anthropologie, Antropología, Ciencias Sociales, Etnolinguística, Ethnologie, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Anthropology of Lowland South America, História Oral, Cultural and Social Anthropology, Oral histories, Borders and Borderlands, Amazonian indigenous peoples, Historia Oral en ciencias sociales, Etnicidad, Amerindian languages, Indigenous literacy, Amerindian linguistics, Etnología, Relaciones interétnicas, Etnologia Indígena, Historical and Comparative Sociology, Ethnicity and National Identity, Ethnic politics, Pano, Antropologia, Panoan Languages, Cashinahua, Caxinauá, and Huni Kuinedit
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Compte rendu de "Yves d'Évreux , Voyage au nord du Brésil (1615), édition critique du texte complet établie par FranzObermeier, Westensee-Verlag, coll. «Fontes Americanae » 4, Kiel, 2012, 429 p., ill., introduction, index, bibliogr. " Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2013, 99-2, pp. 214-219.more
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History, Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, Social Anthropology, and 32 moreLatin American and Caribbean History, Colombia, Political Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Economic Anthropology, Indigenous Politics, Amazonia, Ethnology, Peru, Latin American History, Extractive industries (Economic Anthropology), Indigenous Peoples, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of Peru, Latin American Economic History, Latin America (esp. Bolivia and Peru), Colonial Latin American History, Amazonian Studies, Interethnic Relations, Antropología cultural, Etnologia, Antropología Social, Antropología, Amazonian History, Amazonian Ethnology, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Etnología, Relaciones interétnicas, Extractive industries, Etnologia Indígena, Rubber boom (caucho), and Antropologiaedit
"Obtained by combining leaves of the chacrona plant (psychotria viridis) with jagube vine extracts (banisteriopsis caapi), Ayahuasca is a powerful hallucinogenic – or entheogenic - brew thought to have been used in indigenous rituals in... more
"Obtained by combining leaves of the chacrona plant (psychotria viridis) with jagube vine extracts (banisteriopsis caapi), Ayahuasca is a powerful hallucinogenic – or entheogenic - brew thought to have been used in indigenous rituals in the Andes and Amazon regions of South America for up to 7000 years. Following the psychedelic revolution of the 1960s, the revival of neo-shamanic cults in the Amazon and beyond, and the rise of New Age culture and psycho-tourism, Ayahuasca has continued to garner increasing attention on the global stage.
Intrigued by this phenomenon, Veissière combines bibliographic research, ethnographic fieldwork and experiments in consciousness studies to investigate the magical appeal of this ancient 'plant teacher'. Understanding Ayahuasca requires detours through such varied intellectual traditions as Beat literature, ethnobotany, the anthropology of consciousness and religion, neurochemistry and neuroscience, experimental psychology, New Age pseudoscience, the cultural history of drug use, and the philosophy of mind.
In this lecture, Veissière gives an overview of this literature and discusses his fieldwork among members of syncretic Ayahuasca churches and other modern seekers of 'shamanic' experiences in the jungles of South America. Beginning with an emphasis on symbolic dimensions of these practices, he interrogates the role of religious discourse in mediating the content and boundaries of “visionary” experiences. Further questions open a broader field of unknowability and examine ayahuasca experiences through post-husserlian phenomenological approaches to perception on the one hand, and non-human dimensions of ontology on the other.
After moving on to a discussion of legal issues surrounding entheogenic practices , Veissière concludes with a series of questions about political epistemology and ontology: what, how, and why can certain planes of consciousness and experience be defined and enforced as ‘real’ and 'legal', and others punished by law and biomedicine?
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Intrigued by this phenomenon, Veissière combines bibliographic research, ethnographic fieldwork and experiments in consciousness studies to investigate the magical appeal of this ancient 'plant teacher'. Understanding Ayahuasca requires detours through such varied intellectual traditions as Beat literature, ethnobotany, the anthropology of consciousness and religion, neurochemistry and neuroscience, experimental psychology, New Age pseudoscience, the cultural history of drug use, and the philosophy of mind.
In this lecture, Veissière gives an overview of this literature and discusses his fieldwork among members of syncretic Ayahuasca churches and other modern seekers of 'shamanic' experiences in the jungles of South America. Beginning with an emphasis on symbolic dimensions of these practices, he interrogates the role of religious discourse in mediating the content and boundaries of “visionary” experiences. Further questions open a broader field of unknowability and examine ayahuasca experiences through post-husserlian phenomenological approaches to perception on the one hand, and non-human dimensions of ontology on the other.
After moving on to a discussion of legal issues surrounding entheogenic practices , Veissière concludes with a series of questions about political epistemology and ontology: what, how, and why can certain planes of consciousness and experience be defined and enforced as ‘real’ and 'legal', and others punished by law and biomedicine?
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