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Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon

Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon

Wright, Robin M.
Harner, Michael J.

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralNative American HistorySouth American History

ISBN10: 0803243944
ISBN13: 9780803243941
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Jun 1 2013
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon tells the life story of Mandu da Silva, the last living jaguar shaman among the Baniwa people in the northwest Amazon. In this original and engaging work, Robin M. Wright, who has known and worked with da Silva for more than thirty years, weaves the story of da Silva's life together with the Baniwas' society, history, mythology, cosmology, and jaguar shaman traditions. The jaguar shamans are key players in what Wright calls a nexus of religious power and knowledge in which healers, sorcerers, priestly chanters, and dance-leaders exercise complementary functions that link living specialists with the deities and great spirits of the cosmos. By exploring in depth the apprenticeship of the shaman, Wright shows how jaguar shamans acquire the knowledge and power of the deities in several stages of instruction and practice.

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