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Tsewa's gift : magic and meaning in an Amazonian society

Title
Tsewa's gift : magic and meaning in an Amazonian society / Michael F. Brown.
Author
Brown, Michael F. (Michael Fobes), 1950-
Publication
Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1993], ©1986.

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220 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry
Uniform Title
Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry.
Subject
  • Aguaruna Indians > Religion
  • Aguaruna magic
  • Aguaruna Indians > Ethnobotany
Note
  • "With a new preface."--Cover.
  • Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985. (Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-215) and index.
Contents
  • Introduction. Interpretations of Magic. The Aguaruna and Amazonian Ethnography. Studying Aguaruna Magic -- Ch. 1. Alto Mayo. Alto Mayo Ethnohistory. The Alto Mayo Arguaruna, 1978 -- Ch. 2. Seen and Unseen. Ankuash's Snakebite. Being and Becoming in Aguaruna Mythology. Powerful Beings. Souls. Dreams and Visions. Shamanism. Ankuash's Snakebite Reconsidered -- Ch. 3. The Uses of Affinity. Aguaruna Hunting Technology. Magical Songs. Game Grabbers. The Ethnobotany of Attraction. Hunting Failure: Causes and Cures -- Ch. 4. The Garden's Children. Aguaruna Horticulture. The Swidden as Symbolic Space. Gardening Songs. Gardening Stones. Growth-Promoting Plants. Gardening Avoidances. The Structure of Garden Magic. Manioc Horticulture as Practical Signification -- Ch. 5. A Technology of Sentiment. Male-Female Relations. Songs That Direct Human Emotion. Pusagki: Agents of Demented Attraction. Love Magic, Hunting Magic, and the Limits of Affinity -- Ch. 6. Working Metaphors.
  • The Question of Agency. Visionary Experience and the Direction of Events. Creating Order. Is Aguaruna Magic Performative? Magic, Technology, and the Symbolic Power of the Ordinary. Appendix 1: Sources of Anen -- Appendix 2: Notes on the Collection, Transcription, and Translation of Aguaruna Anen.
ISBN
156098306X
OCLC
  • ocm31627091
  • SCSB-4188747
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries