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The Last Shaman - Change in an Amazonian Community (Paperback, Revised ed.)
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The Last Shaman - Change in an Amazonian Community (Paperback, Revised ed.)
Series: Arakmbut of Amazonian Peru
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The Arakmbut are an indigenous people who live in the Madre de Dios
region of the southeastern Peruvian rain forest. Since their first
encounters with missionaries in the 1950s,they have shown
resilience and a determination to affirm their identity in the face
of many difficulties. During the last fifteen years, Arakmbut
survival has been under threat from a goldrush that has attracted
hundreds of colonists onto their territories. This trilogy of books
traces the ways in which the Arakmbut overcome the dangers that
surround them: their mythology and cultural strength; their social
flexibility; and their capacity to incorporate non-indigenous
concepts and activities into their defence strategies. Each area is
punctuated by the constant presence of the invisible spirit, which
provides a seamless theme connecting the books to each other. The
death of a shaman in 1980 had an enormous spiritual and political
consequences for one of the Arakmbut communities, resulting in a
shift in its social organization from comparative hierarchy to a
more egalitarian system. The author uses this case as an
illustration to challenge the idea that indigenous peoples live in
fossilized, static worlds. He shows that political activities in
conjunction with shamanic communication with the spirit world
provide the impetus and context for change. Buy all three volumes
for 20% discount
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