Relaciones de poder y apropiación del « otro » en relatos sobre iniciaciones shamánicas en el Chaco argentino
Relations of power and the incorporation of the Other in shamanic initiation accounts in the Argentine Chaco. This article analyses the inclusion of external elements and personages in a narration concerning Toba shamanic initiation, focusing especially on notions of power such as they are elaborate...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Société des américanistes
2001-01-01
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| Series: | Journal de la Société des Américanistes |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/jsa/1849 |
| Summary: | Relations of power and the incorporation of the Other in shamanic initiation accounts in the Argentine Chaco. This article analyses the inclusion of external elements and personages in a narration concerning Toba shamanic initiation, focusing especially on notions of power such as they are elaborated nowadays in peri-urban contexts. In shamanic initiation the powers of spirits from the imaginary of neighbouring villages are entwined with those of the auxiliary spirits present in the Toba cosmology. Among the new and foreign beings with initiatic powers, the figures of the gaucho and other personages who usually occupy high ranks in the interethnic relationship system (guardias and patrones) are considered. Understanding the Toba’s notions of power allows one to shed light on the relations between different types of persons, on the basis of a hierarchy determined by the possession of shamanic and economic power. |
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| ISSN: | 0037-9174 1957-7842 |