The contagion of images: embedded voices and sensory apparatuses in an Amerindian shamanic ritual
Hybrid 2017 Andrea-Luz Gutierrez Choquevilca
This article takes an Amazonian example to question one of the main issues of the shamanic ritual utterance: the operation of composition-translation that the ritual specialist has to carry out to “represent” the invisibles during his performance, and the sensory apparatuses it implies. In fact, the study of the ikara therapeutic songs of the Runa people from the Peruvian Amazon (Upper Pastaza)...