Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine
August 1, 2015
Patricia E J Wiltshire, David L Hawksworth, Kevin J Edwards
18 citations
Light microscopical examination of plant and fungal remains in the post mortem gut may be capable of demonstrating the ingestion of unexpected natural psychotropic materials. This is demonstrated here in a case in which a 'shaman' was accused of causing the death of a young man. The deceased had participated in a ceremony which involved the drinking of ayahuasca in order to induce a...
Electronic Visualisation and the Arts London Conference
July 7, 2015
Jonathan Weinel
It has been proposed that among the earliest known artworks produced by humans may have been representations of altered states of consciousness (ASCs). With the advent of modern computer technology that enables the creation of almost any sound or image imaginable, the possibility of representing the subjective visual and aural components of hallucinatory experiences with increased realism...
Redalyc
July 7, 2015
Matthias Lewy
8 citations
This paper discusses the theory of "perspectivism” (Viveiros de Castro) and its application to interpretation of the myths of the Pemón-speaking groups of the Gran Sabana (Arekuna, Kamarakoto, Taurepán); the paper aims to compare ontological conceptions of "seeing” and "hearing”. Performances of the shamanic healing ritual, the hunting ritual (parishara), and recent orekotón rituals (areruya,...
July 1, 2015
Luisa Elvira Belaúnde
The paper presents an interview with Herlinda Agustin, a renowned Shipibo-Konibo onaya (“doctor”) and kene artist who died in 2010. It describes the learning path that took her from massages and diets to healing with ayahuasca, after the birth of her last child. Herlinda saw her career as intrinsically related to her desire to look after her children and to generate an income to sustain their...
Anuac
June 28, 2015
A. Mancuso
In the last twenty years, agency has entered the field of anthropological studies of Lowland South America Indigenous Peoples as a term and a topic of concern. Ethnographical and theoretical treatment of this notion has intertwined here with the revisiting of the concept of animism, Viveiros de Castro’s statements about “amerindian perspectivism” and a broader “ontological turn” in research...
June 12, 2015
Debora Leonel Soares
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...
Oxford University Press eBooks
June 9, 2015
Robin Michel Wright
Abstract This article is an in-depth study of the cosmology and practices of assault sorcerers. While it concentrates mostly on indigenous Amazonian societies, comparisons are drawn from other ethnographic areas of the world. It shows that assault sorcery is an integral part of a nexus of religious knowledge and power, in which primordial spirits of sickness and sorcery are embodied in all...
Hunter Gatherer Research
June 1, 2015
Chris Low
18 citations
Despite extensive interest of both scholars and the wider public in the Kalahari San healing dance, there has been little analysis of the dance that begins with the biological human body. In this paper I explore the role of the body in the dance by drawing on my own KhoeSan healing experience, professional knowledge as an osteopath and acupuncturist, wider anthropological work on possession...
Gazeta de Antropología
June 1, 2015
Isidro Marín Gutiérrez
1 citation
Este trabajo se enmarca en los lineamientos del CONSEP, a través del \nproyecto “Sustancias enteógenas en Ecuador. El ritual de la ayahuasca en Zamora Chinchipe”. Esta \ninvestigación pertenece a la Quinta convocatoria interna de proyectos 2015 de la UTPL titulada “Sustancias \nancestrales enteógenas en Ecuador” (PROY_CCCOM_1049).
May 13, 2015
M. G. Nasuruddin, S. Ishak
Abstract Certain traditional performing arts are used as agents of healing by way of their performance and attendance ritualistic ceremonies. Such performing arts incorporate the trance state as an integral part of their healing ceremony. Usually such trance state forms the climax of the performance as in the Kuda Kepang or Hobby Horse Dance. In Main Putri, another form of therapeutic healing...