Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings

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Innovatively brings together microbiology and Amerindian shamanic practice, with a view to interrogating both as equals

Intertwines biocultural and ethnohistorical approaches

Providing a fresh comparative exploration sure to be of interest to anthropologists, historians and social scientists of medicine, science, and biology

Innovatively brings together microbiology and Amerindian shamanic practice, with a view to interrogating both as equals

Intertwines biocultural and ethnohistorical approaches

Providing a fresh comparative exploration sure to be of interest to anthropologists, historians and social scientists of medicine, science, and biology

Über den Autor

César E. Giraldo Herrera, biologist and social anthropologist, is the Victoria Maltby Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College and an Associate Researcher at the Institute for Science Innovation and Society (InSIS), School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME), University of Oxford, UK.

Zusammenfassung

Innovatively brings together microbiology and Amerindian shamanic practice, with a view to interrogating both as equalsIntertwines biocultural and ethnohistorical approachesProviding a fresh comparative exploration sure to be of interest to anthropologists, historians and social scientists of medicine, science, and biology

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Colonising and decolonising ontologies.- Part 1: Amerindian shamanism.- 2. (Mis)Understanding shamanism and animism.- 3. First contacts with Amerindian shamans and their "spirits".- 4. Syncretic ontologies of the microbial-masters of game.- Part 2: Shamanic microscopy, perceiving cellular souls and microbial spirits.- 5. Shamanic epistemologies.- 6. Neuropsychological naturalistic explanations of shamanic visions.- 7. The cavern of the eye: seeing through the retina.- 8. Entoptic microscopy.- Part 3: Biosocial Ethnohistory of Syphilis and Related Diseases.- 9. French malaise in the Taíno myths of origin.- 10. The spotted Sun and the blemished Moon, Nahuatl views on treponematoses.- 11. The West, Syphilis and the other treponematoses.- 12. Threading worlds together.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Genre:	Recht , Sozialwissenschaften , Soziologie , Wirtschaft
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xx 274 S.
ISBN-13:	9783030100414
ISBN-10:	3030100413
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Giraldo Herrera, César E.
Hersteller:	Springer Springer International Publishing AG
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	210 x 148 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	César E. Giraldo Herrera
Erscheinungsdatum:	28.12.2018
Gewicht:	0,386 kg