A spiritual history of Alleluia and the Pakaraima Mountains /
This case study explores the theories and methods used during multisited ethnogeographic doctoral fieldwork among the Alleluia, an Indigenous religion and social movement in the Pakaraima Mountains that transcend Guyana, Brazil, and Venezuela. This highly forested Amazonian domain has abundant depos...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd,
2024.
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| Series: | Sage Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This case study explores the theories and methods used during multisited ethnogeographic doctoral fieldwork among the Alleluia, an Indigenous religion and social movement in the Pakaraima Mountains that transcend Guyana, Brazil, and Venezuela. This highly forested Amazonian domain has abundant deposits of rare earth elements, water, carbon, and biocultural diversity. Ka'pon (Akawaio, Patamona, and Ingarikó) and Pemon (Makushi, Arekuna, Taurepan, and Kamarakoto) members of the Carib linguistic family have traversed and cultivated this "land of many waters" since time immemorial. Alleluia is not only an official religion in Guyana with 26 churches throughout the Pakaraima Mountains and circum-Mount Roraima landscape, but it is also a highland resistance and revitalization movement with a unique dialect and history. Primary qualitative data were derived from oral histories, stories, testimonials, and spiritual geographic mappings recorded using decolonizing action research methods, participant observation, focus groups, and semistructured interviews to compose a comprehensive spiritual history of an Indigenous landscape. This novel transdisciplinary method is perfectly suited for further research that aims to document and analyze the integral relationship between an individual or community and the surrounding landscape. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9781529682366 1529682363 |