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Sorcery in Amazonia
27
February

Sorcery in Amazonia, ed. by J.A. Whitaker, M. Lewy & T. Janik (2025)

February 27, 2025
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Sorcery in Amazonia A Comparative Exploration of Magical Assault Edited by James Andrew Whitaker, Matthias Lewy, and Tarryl Janik Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, 2025 Although shamanism has become a well-developed and expansive topic within the anthropology of Amazonia, the ethnographic literature focusing on sorcery has been sporadic and sparse by comparison. This has...

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The Shamanism of Eco-Tourism
06
February

THE SHAMANISM OF ECO-TOURISM, by J. Whitaker (2025)

February 6, 2025
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The Shamanism of Eco-Tourism History and Ontology among the Makushi in Guyana By James Andrew Whitaker Cambridge University Press, 2025 In The Shamanism of Eco-Tourism. the first book in English to focus specifically on the Makushi in Guyana, James Andrew Whitaker examines how shamanism informs Makushi interactions with outsiders in...

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Climatic and Ecological Change in the Americas
15
August

CLIMATIC AND ECOLOGICAL CHANGE IN THE AMERICAS, ed. by J.A. Whitaker et al. (2023)

August 15, 2023
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Climatic and Ecological Change in the Americas A Perspective from Historical Ecology Ed. by James Andrew Whitaker, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong & Guillaume Odonne Routledge, 2023 Climatic and Ecological Change in the Americas offers a comparative analysis of the experiences, responses, and adaptations of people to climate variability and environmental...

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Ambivalent Encounters: Emotions, Memory, Power
25
January

Session 3: Ambivalent Encounters: Emotions, Memory, Power

January 25, 2020
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Thematic Session 3: Ambivalent Encounters: Emotions, Memory, Power SALSA XII Sesquiannual Conference - Vienna, 2019 Chair: Jeremy M. Campbell, Roger Williams University, USA Session Schedule Thursday, 27 June, KHM Bassano Saal 16:00 16:20 Harry Walker. Between pity and respect: rethinking Amazonian egalitarianism. 16:20 16:30 Questions and discussion 16:30 16:50 Gabriel Torrealba Alfonzo. Images of debt: Kukama perceptions of...

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