Shamans' knowledge: incantations, cosmology, illnesses and cures, creation narratives, curing ritual
El conocimiento de los chamanes: encantamientos, cosmología, enfermedades y curas, narrativas de creación, ritual de curación.
Object Details
| Subject Language | Baniwa |
| Language PID(s) | ailla:119657 |
| Title [Indigenous] | Maliri ianheke |
| Language of Indigenous Title | bwi |
| Title | Shamans' knowledge: incantations, cosmology, illnesses and cures, creation narratives, curing ritual |
| Language Community | Rio Aiary |
| Country(ies) | Brazil |
| Place Created | São Gabriel da Cachoeira |
| Date Created | 2001 |
| Description [Indigenous] | |
| Language of Indigenous Description | |
| Description | Audio recordings of interviews with Baniwa shamans in 2001. Incantations (José Felipe, Mario, José Garcia); history of Uapui (José Felipe, Mário); cosmology - sicknesses of the Whites and Amaru; the transmission of illnesses (José Garcia, José Felipe); cosmology & shamans' vision of the world (José Garcia, José Felipe); the great spirit Dzuliferi. Interviews about Hekwapinai, Yoopinai and Maatchikwe. Interviews about shamans. Interviews about the levels of the universe. Interviews about Pamatchiatsa Hekwapi Ianheke (wisdom). Interviews about Hekwapi Iapoana (José Garcia, José Felipe, Mário, Teresa, Flora). Stories of Pinaywali and the Malinai. Incantation. A cure by José Garcia and Mário, 2001. |
| Genres | Ritual song Myth Ethnography Article |
| Source Note | |
| References | “Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon. University of Nebraska Press, Omaha, 2013, 389 pp. História Indígena e do Indigenismo no Alto Rio Negro. [Indigenous History and the History of Indian Policy on the Upper Rio Negro] Campinas: Mercado de Letras/Instituto Socioambiental, 2005, 300 pp. |
| Contributor(s) Individual / Role | Wright, Robin M. (Researcher) Felipe Aguiar, José (Speaker) Garcia, José (Speaker) da Silva, Flora (Speaker) |
| Contributor(s) Corporate / Role |
