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Body and Religion

ISSN 2057-5831

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Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings By C. E. Giraldo Herrera (2018)

Body and Religion September 1, 2020 Graham Harvey

Review of César Enrique Giraldo Herrera, Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings. Engages with wider scholarship about historical and contemporary shamans and animists in the Carbbean, Central and South America. Argues the medical and epidemeological knowledge aids better understanding of what shamans do. In particular, the biology of eyes and relationships with microbes propels an argument for the...