Xamanismo e cosmovisão andina: um estudo sobre práticas de curanderismo Mochica expressas na cerâmica ritual
Debora Leonel Soares
June 12, 2015 DOI: 10.11606/d.71.2015.tde-12082015-164534 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
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| Key points | Argues that categories such as shaman, healer, and priest should be problematized in studies of Mochica material culture, and proposes analyzing ritual ceramics through the lens of "multinaturalismo amerindio" and Andean concepts of transition, movement, and transformation to understand human and non-human relations. |
Abstract
This dissertation proposes the analysis of ritual ceramic produced by the Mochica, society that occupied the Peruvian north coast between I and VIII centuries, based in three main axis: the mediator role of characters commonly interpreted as shamans or priests; the human sacrifices rituals and the increase of political power processes; and the transformation dynamics and their implications in the relations between humans and non-humans. This themes, observed in the iconography e morphology of the artifacts served as guide for the identification process of the selected ceramic conjuncts which were used in this study. The analysis was guided in the identification of characters classified as shamans, healers and priests, with the objective of problematize such categories in the studies of material culture related to Mochica mortuary practices. The debate about shamanism was inspired by contemporary anthropological theory that concerns to "multinaturalismo amerindio". Transitions concepts, movement and transformation, shamanic practices and cosmological of Andean organization are the topic of thoughts in the research.