The Western World: A Source of Shamanic Power. The Case of the Shipibo-Konibo Shamans (Western Amazonia)
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https://doi.org/10.18441/ind.v40i1.243-262Keywords:
shamanism, book, perspectivism, Shipibo-Konibo, AmazoniaAbstract
Historical data on the Shipibo-Konibo society (of western Amazonia), which reveal several centuries of contact, have contributed to the emergence of shamanic practices that combine local vegetalismo with borrowings from the western world. At first glance, these shamanic practices, which have been reinforced by the emergence of shamanic tourism in the Shipibo-Konibo villages, may appear to the idealistic anthropologist as a sign of a weakening of vernacular shamanism, characterized above all by a close communality with the plant world. However, the study of complex cosmological elaborations, carried out by the shamans of the village of San Francisco de Yarinacocha, from sectors proper to Western society such as allopathic medicine, technology and books will show that it is rather a process of resilience aimed at satisfying the ontological need that constitutes the Shipibo-Konibo universe, in response to the sociological changes with which they are obliged to act.
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