Mariage mystique et pouvoir chamanique chez les Shipi-bo d'Amazonie péruvienne et les Inuit du Nunavut canadien

Mystical Marriages and Shamanistic Powers among the Shipibo of Amazonia (Peru) and the Inuit from Nunavut (Canada)The authors adopt a neo-comparatist ethnographic approach to study cases of shamanistic mediation in two aboriginal peoples of the Americas.They first look into dream sexuality between spirits and humans, and then into the kinship (by marriage and descent) of shamans with their helping spirits.These relationships are a source of power.They may engender future shamans or they may sanction the end of the learning period and consecrate the mediating power of great shamans with the spirits.Shamans can cut across all boundaries through androgyny and through transvestism, be it symbolic or concrete (i.e., its outward signs can be seen, heard or smelled

Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies · Indigenous Studies and Ecology

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