Amerindian socio-cosmologies between the Andes, Amazonia and Mesoamerica : toward an anthropological understanding of the Isthmo-Colombian Area
"This book offers a new anthropological understanding of the socio-cosmological and ontological characteristics of the Isthmo-Colombian Area, beyond established theories for Amazonia, the Andes and Mesoamerica. It focuses on a core region that has been largely neglected by comparative anthropol...
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Abingdon, New York :
Routledge,
2020.
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| Sarja: | Routledge studies in anthropology
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Sisällysluettelo:
- The Isthmo-Colombian Area in context
- Introduction: Toward an anthropological understanding of the area between the Andes, Mesoamerica, and the Amazon / Ernst Halbmayer
- Conceptualizing the Isthmo-Colombian Area from a regional comparative perspective
- An Amerindian humanism: Order and transformation in Chibchan universes / Juan Camillo Niño Vargas
- Languages of the Isthmo-Colombian Area and its Southeastern Borderland: Chibchan, Chocoan, Yukpa, and Wayuunaiki / Matthias Pache, Colette Grinevald and Sergio Meira
- Kinship, clanship, and hierarchy in the Isthmo-Colombian Area / Ernst Halbmayer
- Between Mesoamerica, the Central Andes, and Amazonia: Area conceptions, chronologies, and history / Ernst Halbmayer and Christiane Clados
- The golden ones: The human body as reflective metallic surface in the Isthmo-Colombian Area / Christiane Clados. Case studies: Change and continuity in shamanic and priestly practices and the conception of things, humans, plants and animals
- Parents who own lives: Relations and persons among a Chibchan group in Colombia / Jose Arenas Gómez
- Tuwancha, "the One Who Knows": Specialists and specialized knowledge in transhuman communication among the Sokorpa Yukpa of the Serranía del Perijá, Colombia / Anne Goletz
- The Wounaan haaihí jëeu nam ritual with the K'ugwiu: reinforcing benevolence and preventing calamity / Chindío Peña Ismare, Julia Velásquez Runk, Rito Ismare Peña and Chenier Carpio Opua
- Things, life, and humans in Gunayala (Panama): Talking about Molas and Nuchus inside and outside Guna Society / Mònica Martínez Mauri
- Plant ontologies among the Bribri of Talamanca, Costa Rica / Schabnam Kaviany
- The place of livestock in human-nonhuman relationship among the Wayuu / Alessandro Mancuso
- Murderous spirits: Shamanic Interpretation of Armed violence, suicide, and exhumation in the economy of death of the Emberá (Chocó, Antioquia, Colombia) / Anne-Marie Losonczy.