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Whitehead, Neil L.

Title Dark shamans : kanaima and the poetics of violent death / Neil L. Whitehead.

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Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2002.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe Kansas Collection	299.8842 W587d 2002	---	Lib Use Only

Description	309 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-298) and index.
Contents	Introduction I -- 1. The Ethnographer's Tale -- i 2. Tales of the Kanaima: Observers 41 -- 3. Tales of the Kanaima: Participants 88 -- 4. Shamanic Warfare 128 -- 5. Modernity, Development, and Kanaima Violence 174 -- 6. Ritual Violence and Magical Death in Amazonia 202 -- Conclusion: Anthropologies of Violence 245 -- Notes 253.
Subject	Patamona Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.
	Patamona Indians -- Death.
	Macusi Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.
	Macusi Indians -- Death.
	Violent deaths -- Guyana -- Paramakatoi Region.
	Shamanism -- Guyana -- Paramakatoi Region.
	Witchcraft -- Guyana -- Paramakatoi Region.
	Ritual abuse -- Guyana -- Paramakatoi Region.
	Paramakatoi Region (Guyana) -- Rites and ceremonies.
Added Title	Kanaima and the poetics of violent death
ISBN	0822329522 (cloth : alk. paper)
	9780822329527 (cloth : alk. paper)
	0822329883 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	9780822329886 (pbk. : alk. paper)