Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings By C. E. Giraldo Herrera (2018)
Review of César Enrique Giraldo Herrera, Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings. Engages with wider scholarship about historical and contemporary shamans and animists in the Carbbean, Central and South America. Argues the medical and epidemeological knowledge aids better understanding of what shamans d...
| Nebentitel: | Special Issue: The Qur'an and affect |
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Review |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Equinox Publishing
[2019]
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Body and religion
Jahr: 2019, Band: 3, Heft: 1, Seiten: 94-96 |
| RelBib Classification: | AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion AZ Neue Religionen KBR Lateinamerika |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Animists
B Shamans B Rezension B Eyes B microbes B Syphilis |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Review of César Enrique Giraldo Herrera, Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings. Engages with wider scholarship about historical and contemporary shamans and animists in the Carbbean, Central and South America. Argues the medical and epidemeological knowledge aids better understanding of what shamans do. In particular, the biology of eyes and relationships with microbes propels an argument for the value of Amerindian medical and relational knowleges. |
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| ISSN: | 2057-5831 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Body and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/bar.11877 |