Areruya and indigenous prophetism in Northern Amazonia /
"Based on four years of ethnographic research, this book discusses the political, shamanic and mythological foundations of Areruya, an indigenous religious movement practiced by the Ingariko in Northern Amazonia. It reflects on cultural transformations, revealing how Areruya is not only a shama...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2024.
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| Series: | New directions in the anthropology of Christianity.
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| Summary: | "Based on four years of ethnographic research, this book discusses the political, shamanic and mythological foundations of Areruya, an indigenous religious movement practiced by the Ingariko in Northern Amazonia. It reflects on cultural transformations, revealing how Areruya is not only a shamanic appropriation of Christianity, but also an indigenous and ritualized interpretation of colonization, whereby exogenous elements are corporally translated"-- |
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| Item Description: | Revised version of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Universidade Federal Do Rio De Janeiro, 2019) under the title: Os Ingarikó e a religião Areruya. |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 277 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781350338692 1350338699 9781350338739 1350338737 |