Cubeo Hehénewa religious thought : metaphysics of a northwestern Amazonian people /
The societies of Vaupes region are among the most documented indigenous cultures, in part because they are thought to resemble earlier civilizations lost during initial colonial conflict, and students and scholars are eagerly awaiting the publication of this posthumous work by the man widely regarde...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Creation and emergence
- Process in creation
- Social principles
- The social order
- The tribe
- The phratry from without
- The phratry from within
- The external role of the phratry: the sib
- The inner working of the sib
- Daily life at ground level
- The cosmic order
- The ritual order
- The order of being
- Analysis
- Rituals of training
- Death and mourning
- Dogma
- Rituals
- Instruments, implements and dances
- Shamans, jaguars, and thunderers
- History
- Becoming a payé and curing
- Concepts of power
- Gender.