Revista Alteridades
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Revista Alteridades
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¿Mueren en realidad los chamanes?: narraciones de los siona sobre chamanes muertoshot!
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E. Jean Langdon. Are shamans actually dying? Narrative of the Siona regarding dead shamans.
Narrative is a mechanism for the conservation of oral tradition. In daily life stories, the Siona expose the correspondence of their cosmology with dreams. The article examines, within this culture from Yahé, the conceptions regarding life and death, specially those of the shamans. The body of the shaman has the power of transforming itself into animals. A normal Siona loses his material body upon death, shamans have a first death with an initiation without the need to lose their body, although they change their names. When they leave this world, they stay as star figures and carry on having a important role amongst the Siona.
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Tres procedimientos diagnósticos de la medicina tradicional indÃgenahot!
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Enrique Eroza Solana. Three diagnosis procedures of indigenous traditional medicine.
The article consists in a general study of the people of Mexico regarding the ways of establishing the origins and basic causes of illnesses. The author finds four basic causes of illnesses that can be related to each other: natural, social, divine and seasonal. The different methods of diagnosis, pulse, corn-reading and divinatory dreams, show the essential features of the specialists, their powers and their relation to the natural and spiritual world. The diagnosis methods have within themselves healing powers where physical illnesses cannot be separated from the spiritual.
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Tradiciones de chamanismo en la Mazateca Bajahot!
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Juan Pérez Quijada. Shamanism traditions on the low Mazateca area.
The Mazateca geography is full of places where spaces are opened for the cohabitation of ‘“enima”, different kinds of beings, specially the “chiconindú”, owners of places. The entrance to this world of reality might be unintentional and in certain cases, led by the consumption of “sito” a holy mushroom, which opens the doors to the spaces of consciousness where the mentioned beings appear. The meeting with the “chicones” is not always advantageous, it might produce serious troubles which need the participation of the “sinahé”, healers with shamanic features who can rescue the lost soul.
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Reseña - Etnias en evolución social: las vicisitudes de un antropólogo en Centroaméricahot!
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Gilberto López y Rivas - Etnias en evolución social va más allá de una compilación de trabajos antropológicos sobre un tema. En realidad, constituye una suerte de introspección de un connotado antropólogo estadounidense, Richard N. Adams, en torno a sus investigaciones, sus perspectivas teóricas y su compromiso personal sobre el estudio de las etnias y la etnicidad en Centroamérica, particularmente en Guatemala, desde los años cincuenta hasta la fecha. La literatura antropológica ha dado cuenta de otras preocupaciones teóricas de este autor en torno al poder y el desarrollo, la antropología aplicada, los procesos de energía y otros temas de la evolución social, por lo que es un acierto que el Departamento de Antropología de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana editara este conjunto de trabajos dedicados a los problemas étnicos.
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