Raíces – Revista Nicaragüense de Antropología

El lugar de la creencia (o no) del antropólogo en el campo

Raíces – Revista Nicaragüense de Antropología December 22, 2021 Rodrigo Iamarino Caravita

While participating in some ceremonies in so-called shamanic contexts, I was faced with a dilemma: how to give anthropological meaning to seemingly extraordinary experiences, such as the vision of death? How to respond to fellow anthropologists who kept asking me: did you really see death? And, most importantly, how to respond without falling into the false opposition of the anthropologist’s...