Tsewa's Gift: Magic and Meaning in an Amazonian Society

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ISBN-13: 9781560983064
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication date: 1/28/1986
Edition description: WITH NEW PREFACE
Edition number: 1
Pages: 220
Series: Series in Ethnographic Inquiry
Product dimensions: 5.98 (w) x 8.96 (h) x 0.59 (d)

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	Acknowledgments	7
	Illustrations and Plates	9
	Tables	11
	Orthographic Note	13
	Preface to the Paperback Edition	15
	Introduction	19
	Interpretations of Magic
	The Aguaruna and Amazonian Ethnography
	Studying Aguaruna Magic
Ch. 1	Alto Mayo	35
	Alto Mayo Ethnohistory
	The Alto Mayo Arguaruna, 1978
Ch. 2	Seen and Unseen	46
	Ankuash's Snakebite
	Being and Becoming in Aguaruna Mythology
	Powerful Beings
	Souls
	Dreams and Visions
	Shamanism
	Ankuash's Snakebite Reconsidered
Ch. 3	The Uses of Affinity	67
	Aguaruna Hunting Technology
	Magical Songs
	Game Grabbers
	The Ethnobotany of Attraction
	Hunting Failure: Causes and Cures
Ch. 4	The Garden's Children	97
	Aguaruna Horticulture
	The Swidden as Symbolic Space
	Gardening Songs
	Gardening Stones
	Growth-Promoting Plants
	Gardening Avoidances
	The Structure of Garden Magic
	Manioc Horticulture as Practical Signification
Ch. 5	A Technology of Sentiment	133
	Male-Female Relations
	Songs That Direct Human Emotion
	Pusagki: Agents of Demented Attraction
	Love Magic, Hunting Magic, and the Limits of Affinity
Ch. 6	Working Metaphors	162
	The Question of Agency
	Visionary Experience and the Direction of Events
	Creating Order
	Is Aguaruna Magic Performative?
	Magic, Technology, and the Symbolic Power of the Ordinary
	Afterword	179
	Appendix 1: Sources of Anen	185
	Appendix 2: Notes on the Collection, Transcription, and Translation of Aguaruna Anen	187
	Notes	197
	Bibliography	207
	Index	217

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