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This phenomenologically oriented ethnography focuses on experiential aspects of Yanomami shamanism, including shamanistic activities in the context of cultural change. The author interweaves ethnographic material with theoretical components of a holographic principle, or the idea that the “part is equal to the whole,” which is embedded in the nature of the Yanomami macrocosm, human dwelling, multiple-soul components, and shamans’ relationships with embodied spirit-helpers. This book fills an important gap in the regional study of Yanomami people, and, on a broader scale, enriches understanding of this ancient phenomenon by focusing on the consciousness involved in shamanism through firsthand experiential involvement.

Yanomamo Indians --- Yanomamo mythology. --- Shamanism --- Religion. --- ancient phenomenon. --- anthropology. --- biomedicine. --- cosmology. --- cultural change. --- disease. --- dreams. --- engaging. --- ethnographic material. --- fieldwork. --- firsthand experiential involvement. --- healing. --- holographic principle. --- illness. --- indigenous people. --- indigenous studies. --- initiatory ordeal. --- native religions. --- origin myths. --- page turner. --- regional study. --- shamanism. --- shamanistic activities. --- social science. --- sociology of religion. --- spirit helpers. --- spiritual. --- unexplained phenomena. --- villages. --- yanomami shamanism.

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This compelling volume explores how war magic and warrior religion unleash the power of the gods, demons, ghosts, and the dead. Documenting war magic and warrior religion as they are performed in diverse cultures and across historical time periods, this volume foregrounds embodiment, practice, and performance in anthropological approaches to magic, sorcery, shamanism, and religion. The authors go beyond what magic ‘represents’ to consider what magic does. From Chinese exorcists, Javanese spirit siblings, and black magic in Sumatra to Tamil Tiger suicide bombers, Chamorro spiritual re-enchantment, tantric Buddhist war magic, and Yanomami dark shamans, religion and magic are re-evaluated not just from the practitioner’s perspective but through the victim’s lived experience. These original investigations reveal a nuanced approach to understanding social action, innovation, and the revitalization of tradition in colonial and post-colonial societies undergoing rapid social transformation.

War and society --- War --- Magic --- Shamanism --- #SBIB:39A10 --- Religions --- Magick --- Necromancy --- Sorcery --- Spells --- Occultism --- War (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) --- War and religion --- Society and war --- Sociology --- Civilians in war --- Sociology, Military --- Religious aspects --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Social aspects --- War and society. --- Magic. --- Religious aspects.