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Unknown Huichol
Shamans and Immortals, Allies against Chaos
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2010
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The culmination of 34 years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, this book offers ground-breaking insights into fundamental principles of Huichol shamanism and ritual. The scope and length of Fikes's research, combined with the depth of his participation with four Huichol shamans, enable him to convey with empathy details of shamanic initiation, methods for diagnosis and treatment of illness, and motives for performing funeral, deer and peyote hunting, and maize-cultivating rituals.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7591-2026-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7591-2028-0
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
281
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Table of Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter 1: Confessions of a Hybrid Anthropologist No access Pages 13 - 36
Chapter 2: Shamanic Initiation and Ancestor Veneration No access Pages 37 - 72
Chapter 3: Entering the Afterlife No access Pages 73 - 110
Chapter 4: Interdependence and Continuity in Huichol Cosmology No access Pages 111 - 150
Chapter 5: Seeking Sacred Indexes to Celebrate Life’s Logos No access Pages 151 - 166
Postscript No access Pages 167 - 172
Appendix A: A Huichol Woman’s Burial No access Pages 173 - 178
Appendix B: Funeral Ritual Song Excerpts No access Pages 179 - 184
Appendix C: Deer-Hunting and Reincarnating Rituals No access Pages 185 - 198
Appendix D: Death and Mourning among the Huichol No access Pages 199 - 216
Notes No access Pages 217 - 262
References No access Pages 263 - 270
Index No access Pages 271 - 280
About the Author No access Pages 281 - 281
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