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Social Analysis: Journal of Cultural and Social Practice

ISSN 0155-977X

1 paper in the library · publishing 2016

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Narratives of the Invisible: Autobiography, Kinship, and Alterity in Native Amazonia

Social Analysis: Journal of Cultural and Social Practice March 1, 2016 Vanessa Grotti, M. Brightman

Shamanic knowledge is based on an ambiguous commensality with invisible others. As a result, shamans oscillate constantly between spheres of intimacy, both visible and invisible. A place of power and transformation, the spirit world is rarely described by native interlocutors in an objective, detached way; rather, they depict it in terms of events and experiences. Instead of examining the...