Canela Shamanism: Shamans’ Accounts, “Journeying,” and Delimitation of Shamanic Terms
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America December 15, 2017 William H. Crocker
In this article I recount the stories of various shamans I have worked with throughout many decades of fieldwork among the Ramkokamekra-Canela (Eastern Timbira) of central Maranhão state, Brazil. Along with their narratives, I provide ethnographic context in order to address the following questions: (1) Who is a shaman? (2) What is shamanism? Is shamanism better understood (3) as a process or a...