This article investigates the styles of enquiry involved in Lowland South American Amerindian shamanic and narrative discourse genres. The article argues in favour of the existence of an Amazonian mode of thinking strictly related to formulaic composition, commonly found in different verbal poetic genres and its contemporary transformations into written texts published as books by Amerindian...
This article discusses the relationships between ontological variation, translation and the study of Amerindian shamanism and its conceptions of human extensions and connections. Revising some aspects of the anthropological use of the notion of ontology, the article explores some ethnographic translations of copular verbs and its consequences for the undestanding of shamanistic virtual regimes...