Non-Humans in Amerindian South America: Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs (EASA Series Book 37)

"Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies whose lives and worlds are undergoing processes of transformation, adaptation, and deterioration, this volume offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands. The resulting ethnographies - depicting non-human entities emerging in ritual, oral tradition, cosmology, shamanism and music - explore the conditions and effects of unequally ranked life forms, increased extraction of resources, continuous migration to urban centers, and the (usually) forced incorporation of current expressions of modernity into indigenous societies"-- Provided by publisher Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of Illustrations 8 List of Maps, Tables and Figures 9 Acknowledgements 11 Introduction: Towards Engaged Ontographies of Animist Developments in Amerindian South America • Juan Javier Rivera Andía 14 Part I: Securing Body and Wealth 84 1 On the Wings of Inspiration: Ritual Efficacy, Dancing Flamingos and Divine Mediation among Pastoralists and Herd Animals in Isluga, Chile • Penelope Z. Dransart 86 2 Southern Sacrifice and Northern Sorcery: Mountain Spirits and Encantos in the Peruvian Andes • Marieka Sax 110 3 Marking Out the Bounds of Humanity in Tsachila Ritual • Montserrat Ventura i Oller 139 4 Losing Part of Oneself: Channels of Communication between Humans and Non-humans • Francis Ferrié 156 Part II: Cohabitation and Sharing 178 5 The Inkas Still Exist in the Ucayali Valley: What We Can Learn from Songs • Bernd Brabec de Mori 180 6 On Quechua Relatedness to Contemporary and Ancient Dead • Guillermo Salas Carreño 210 7 ‘I’m Crying for the Beautiful Skin of the Jaguar’: Laments, Non-humans and Conviviality among the Ayoreo of the Northern Chaco • Alfonso Otaegui 237 8 Substantiated Wealth: Morality, Local Economy and the Body in Indigenous Amazonia • Minna Opas 265 Part III: Transformations and Slow Turbulences 288 9 Signifying Others: The Musical Management of Social Differences in Amazonia • Jonathan D. Hill 290 10 Inventing a New Verbal Art from Traditional Issues: The Evangelical Songs of the Suruí of Rondônia • Cédric Yvinec 313 11 Prosperity and the Flow of Vital Substances: Relating to Earth Beings in Processes of Mobility in the Southern Peruvian Andes • Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard 339 Epilogue: The Wild Boar Is Out Again and Knows Better than the Jaguar • Mark Münzel 365 Index 378