Andrew Gray The Last Shaman (Hardback) Arakmbut of Amazonian Peru

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Last ShamanCondition: NewSubtitle: Change in an Amazonian CommunityISBN-10: 157181874XEAN: 9781571818744ISBN: 9781571818744Publisher: Berghahn Books, IncorporatedFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/17/1997Description: The Arakmbut are an indigenous people who live in the Madre de Dios region of the southeastern Peruvian rain forest. Since their first encounters with missionaries in the 1950s,they have shown resilience and a determination to affirm their identity in the face of many difficulties. During the last fifteen years, Arakmbut survival has been under threat from a goldrush that has attracted hundreds of colonists onto their territories. This trilogy of books traces the ways in which the Arakmbut overcome the dangers that surround them: their mythology and cultural strength; their social flexibility; and their capacity to incorporate non-indigenous concepts and activities into their defence strategies. Each area is punctuated by the constant presence of the invisible spirit, which provides a seamless theme connecting the books to each other. The death of a shaman in 1980 had an enormous spiritual and political consequences for one of the Arakmbut communities, resulting in a shift in its social organization from comparative hierarchy to a more egalitarian system. The author uses this case as an illustration to challenge the idea that indigenous peoples live in fossilized, static worlds. He shows that political activities in conjunction with shamanic communication with the spirit world provide the impetus and context for change. Buy all three volumes for 20% discountLanguage: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmItem Weight: 522gAuthor: Andrew GrayGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Arakmbut of Amazonian PeruRelease Year: 1997 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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