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BL
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587481
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b416700
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| Title & Author
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Portals of power : : Shamanism in South America /\ edited by E. Jean Matteson Langdon and Gerhard Baer
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed
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| Publication Statement
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Albuquerque :: University of New Mexico Press,, c1992
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x, 350 p. :: ill., map ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0826313450
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-336) and index
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| Contents
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Shamanism and anthropology / E. Jean Matteson Langdon -- Culina shamanism; Gender, power, and knowledge / Donald Pollock -- Dau; Shamanic power in Siona religion and medicine / E. Jean Matteson Langdon -- The concept of nihue among the Shipibo-Conibo of Eastern Peru / Bruno Illius -- The one intoxicated by tobacco; Matsigenka shamanism / Gerhard Baer -- The body of the Guaijiro shaman; Symptoms or symbols? / Michel Perrin -- He who dreams; The nocturnal source of transforming power in Kagwahiv shamanism / Waud H. Kracke -- Dream, shamanism, and power among the toba of formosa province / Pablo G. Wright -- A musical aesthetic of ritual curing in the northwest amazon / Jonathan D. Hill -- Nobody is there to hear; Desana therapeutic incantations / Dominique Buchillet -- Icaros; Magic melodies among the Mestizo shamans of the Peruvian amazon / Luis Eduardo Luna -- Venancio Kamiko; Wakuénai shaman and messiah / Robin M. Wright, Jonathan D. Hill -- Sibundoy shamanism and popular culture in Colombia / María Clemencia Ramírez de Jara, Carlos Ernesto Pinzón Castanō
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Indians of South America-- Religion
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Indians of South America-- Rites and ceremonies
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Shamanism-- South America
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Traditional medicine-- South America
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Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience
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| Dewey Classification
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299/.8
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| LC Classification
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F2320.1.R3P67 1992
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| Added Entry
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Langdon, E. Jean Matteson,1944-
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Baer, Gerhard,1934-
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