"While I Sing I Am Sitting in a Real Airplane"
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20053686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maurizio Gnerre (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 293-316 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Ritual Communication (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003086581-13 |
| OpenAlex | W3024975013 |
| ISBN | 9781003086581 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Among the Shuar, approximately forty-five thousand northwestern Jivaroans of the Ecuadorian Amazon, most parts of a once rich tradition of ceremonial and ritual events have been increasingly abandoned. In the past, both peoples were basically tropical forest hunters and horticulturalists, living in isolated longhouses. Everyday life was shaped and punctuated by many ritual genres, ranging from ritualizations not necessarily observable and perceivable to external observation to highly visible ones, culturally highlighted and linguistically named. In the twentieth century, Catholic and Protestant missionaries successfully converged on the Shuar and Achuar, at least in the endeavor of "domesticating" their social behavior and their bodies: the Shuar were "reduced" to "civilized" social and individual behaviors. This chapter focuses on two ritual genres still frequently performed among the Shuar and Achuar. It also focuses on "discontinuities," that is, changes and innovations, introduced in the contents of the two ritual genres, ádnent and shamanic chanting
Aeronautics · Airplane · Sitting · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Engineering · Medicine · Psychedelics and Drug Studies · Aerospace Engineering
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |