INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THE AMERICAS’ COSMOLOGY, SHAMANISM AND ETHNOGRAPHY -- A POSTCOLONIAL CRITIC

This paper reviews some general assumptions about the anthropological research on shamanism from a postcolonial approach. The latter aims at decentering the eurocentric locus of enunciation of the Western suject of knowledge, questioning the ontological neutrality of language and the givenness of et...

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Main Author: Pablo Wright
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2012-06-01
Series:Espaço Ameríndio
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Online Access:http://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EspacoAmerindio/article/view/29678