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Unknown Huichol
Shamans and Immortals, Allies against Chaos- Authors:
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- 2010
Summary
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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Bibliographic data
- 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





