Technologies of the Self in Contemporary South American Shamanisms
Indigenous Religious Traditions August 4, 2023 Pablo Wright 1 citation
I adapt Michel Foucault’s notion of technologies of the self to carry out a comparative analysis of two ethnographic cases of contemporary South American shamanisms. In these cases, their cosmological and ritual frameworks display ontological thresholds acceded through specific technologies of the self that contest current assumptions about both the Christian and the scientific hegemonic...