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245 10 a| Dark Shamansh| [electronic resource]:b| Kanaimà and the Poetics of Violent Death;

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520 8 a| Annotationb| <div>On the little-known and darker side of shamanism there exists an ancient form of sorcery calledkanaimà, a practice still observed among the Amerindians of the highlands of Guyana, Venezuela, and Brazil that involves the ritual stalking, mutilation, lingering death, and consumption of human victims. At once a memoir of cultural encounter and an ethnographic and historical investigation, this book offers a sustained, intimate look atkanaimà, its practitioners, their victims, and the reasons they give for their actions. Neil L. Whitehead tells of his own involvement with kanaimà—including an attempt to kill him with poison—and relates the personal testimonies of kanaimà shamans, their potential victims, and the victims’ families. He then goes on to discuss the historical emergence of kanaimà, describing how, in the face of successive modern colonizing forces—missionaries, rubber gatherers, miners, and development agencies—the practice has become an assertion of native autonomy. His analysis explores the ways in which kanaimà mediates both national and international impacts on native peoples in the region and considers the significance of kanaimà for current accounts of shamanism and religious belief and for theories of war and violence. Kanaimà appears here as part of the wider lexicon of rebellious terror and exotic horror—alongside the cannibal, vampire, and zombie—that haunts the western imagination.Dark Shamansbroadens discussions of violence and of the representation of primitive savagery by recasting both in the light of current debates on modernity and globalization. </div>;

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650 4 a| Shamanism;

650 4 a| Witchcraft;

650 4 a| Ritual Abuse;

650 4 a| Violent Deaths;

650 4 a| Guyana;

650 4 a| Rites and Ceremonies;

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Dark Shamans Kanaimà and the Poetics of Violent Death

Author/creator	Whitehead, Neil L. Author
Other author	American Council of Learned Societies.
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Durham : Duke University Press
Description	320 p. ill 09.000 x 06.000 in.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from ACLS Humanities E-Book
Subjects	Shamanism Witchcraft Ritual Abuse Violent Deaths Guyana Rites and Ceremonies

Summary	Annotation <div>On the little-known and darker side of shamanism there exists an ancient form of sorcery called<i>kanaim</i><i>à</i>, a practice still observed among the Amerindians of the highlands of Guyana, Venezuela, and Brazil that involves the ritual stalking, mutilation, lingering death, and consumption of human victims. At once a memoir of cultural encounter and an ethnographic and historical investigation, this book offers a sustained, intimate look at<i>kanaim</i><i>à</i>, its practitioners, their victims, and the reasons they give for their actions.<br /><br />Neil L. Whitehead tells of his own involvement with kanaimà—including an attempt to kill him with poison—and relates the personal testimonies of kanaimà shamans, their potential victims, and the victims’ families. He then goes on to discuss the historical emergence of kanaimà, describing how, in the face of successive modern colonizing forces—missionaries, rubber gatherers, miners, and development agencies—the practice has become an assertion of native autonomy. His analysis explores the ways in which kanaimà mediates both national and international impacts on native peoples in the region and considers the significance of kanaimà for current accounts of shamanism and religious belief and for theories of war and violence.<br /><br />Kanaimà appears here as part of the wider lexicon of rebellious terror and exotic horror—alongside the cannibal, vampire, and zombie—that haunts the western imagination.<i>Dark Shamans</i>broadens discussions of violence and of the representation of primitive savagery by recasting both in the light of current debates on modernity and globalization.<p><br /></p></div>
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2002003192
ISBN	9780822329527
ISBN	0822329522 (Trade Cloth) Active Record
Standard identifier#	9780822329527
Stock number	00008251

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