{"product_id":"in-darkness-and-secrecy-9780822333456","title":"In Darkness and Secrecy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEthnographic study of shamanism in lowland South America, analyzing the relations between the social, political, and historical dynamics of witchcraft and sorcery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The great merit of this volume is that it amply documents the wide variety of ideas and practices that can be classified as shamanistic in Amazonia and, in so doing, establishes that dark shamanism is an essential element of the worldviews and moral philosophies of peoples of this region.”—David Maybury-Lewis, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“In Darkness and Secrecy \u003c\/i\u003etakes sectors of Amazonian ethnography to a new level of productive and provocative excellence.”—Norman Whitten, University of Illinois\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Dark Shamanism \/ Neil L. Whitehead and Robin Wright 1\u003cbr\u003e The Order of Dark Shamans among the Warao \/ Johannes Wilbert 21\u003cbr\u003e Dark Shamans and the Shamanic State: Sorcery and Witchcraft as Political Process in Guyana and the Venezuelan Amazon \/ Silvia Vidal and Neil L. Whitehead 51\u003cbr\u003e The Wicked and the Wise Men: Witches and Prophets in the History of the Northwest Amazon \/ Robin Wright 82\u003cbr\u003e Sorcery Beliefs, Transmissions of Shamanic Knowledge, and Therapeutic Practice among the Desana of the Upper Rio Negro Region, Brazil \/ Dominique Buchillet 109\u003cbr\u003e The Glorious Tyranny of Silence and the Resonance of Shamanic Breath \/ George Mentore 132\u003cbr\u003e A Blend of Blood and Tobacco: Shamans and Jaguars among the Parakana of Eastern Amazonia \/ Carlos Fausto 157\u003cbr\u003e The Wars Within: Xinguano Witchcraft and Balance of Power \/ Michael Heckenberger 179\u003cbr\u003e Siblings and Sorcerers: The Paradox of Kinship among the Kulina \/ Donald Pollock 202\u003cbr\u003e Being Alone amid Others: Sorcery and Morality among the Arara, Carib, Brazil \/ Marnio Teixeira-Pinto 215\u003cbr\u003e Sorcery and Shamanism in Cashinahua Discourse and Praxis, Purus River, Brazil \/ Elsje Lagrou 244\u003cbr\u003e The Enemy Within: Child Sorcery, Revolution, and the Evils of Modernization in Eastern Peru \/ Fernando Santos-Granero 272\u003cbr\u003e Commentary \/ E. Jean Langdon 306\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Substances, Powers, Cosmos, and History \/ Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart 314\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 321\u003cbr\u003e Index 324","brand":"MD - Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52151135240535,"sku":"9780822333456","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822333456.jpg?v=1762960287","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/in-darkness-and-secrecy-9780822333456","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}