...Marina Vanzolini Kopenawa Davi and Albert Bruce , The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman , trans. Elliot Nicholas and Dundy Alison . ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2013 ), 648 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

... cultural models, Amerindian perspectivism holds that human and nonhuman species possess a common values system and cultural framework. While this commonality is ordinarily obscured by biologically grounded, perceptual differences, the gap in perspective may be bridged by shamans, whose gift of adopting...

... to relativize what different peoples—say, Western academics and Amerindian shamans—compare things “for.” Jensen concludes that what is compared and relativized in this symposium are the methods of comparison and relativization themselves. He ventures that the contributors all hope that treating these terms...

... Métaphysiques cannibales of 2009, was laid in the 1970s by the controversial French anthropologists Pierre and Hélène Clastres. It is argued that the Clastres took the intellectual practices of Guarani shamans and prophets as analogous to the those of ancient Greek philosophers but also as sharply critical...

..., “Shamanism of the Mongols,” 185 Mongols,” ofthe “Shamanism Even, Tylor, Not Quite Shamans: Spirit Spirit Shamans: Quite Not Pedersen, Axel Morten...

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... peoples and cultures. With others he established, in 1979, the Society for the Study of Native Arts and Sciences, whose goal was reviving non- western tradi- tions, notably indigenous farming and shamanic medicine; conserving ecologi- cally sensitive land; and founding a holistic- health center (379...

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... Hoffmann's Works ; and Shamanism and Literary Criticism . She has been a visiting professor at Stanford University and a visiting researcher at Doshisha University in Kyoto. Hannes Bajohr is assistant professor of German at the University of California, Berkeley. Together with Florian Fuchs and Joe...

..., a business for shamans, who can resist “ontological predation.” According to Tobie Nathan, only “strange human beings who . . . love their neighbors’ gods” can perform this service. Jef- frey Kripal calls them “gnostic diplomats” (and reveals that they live on campus). But whoever—let us admit...

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... at the National Museum of the Fed- eral University of Rio de Janeiro. His books include Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia, Os índios antes do Brasil, and (as coeditor) Time and Memory in Indigenous Amazonia. He is codirector of the documentary feature filmAs Hiper Mulheres. David Rodgers is a freelance...