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Aparecida Vilaça

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An Unstable “Religion”

The Oxford Handbook of the Anthropology of Religion February 19, 2026 Aparecida Vilaça

Abstract It is known that the first Europeans to arrive in Amazonia did not recognize Indigenous ritual practices as religious. Only in the nineteenth century, with the advent of anthropology, especially with the Taylorian conceptualization of animism, did shamanism, a practice associated with this ontology and widespread in the Amazonian world, begin to be recognized in the literature as...