Non-Humans in Amerindian South America - Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs

Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies whose lives and worlds are undergoing processes of transformation, adaptation, and deterioration, this volume offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands. The resulting ethnographies - depicting non-human entities emerging in ritual, oral tradition, cosmology, shamanism and music - explore the conditions and effects of unequally ranked life forms, increased extraction of resources, continuous migration to urban centers, and the (usually) forced incorporation of current expressions of modernity into indigenous societies.

About the author

Juan Javier Rivera Andía is an anthropologist. He has carried out research at various international research centres in Europe, and has published widely on contemporary Andean Quechua indigenous worlds.

Summary

Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies, and presenting ethnographies of non-human entities emerging in ritual, oral tradition, cosmology, shamanism and music, this book offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands.

Product details

• Authors: Juan Javier Rivera Andia, Juan Javier Rivera Andia Andia
• Assisted by: Juan Javier Rivera Andia (Editor), Juan Javier Rivera Andía (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781800734456
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-445-6
• No. of pages: 396
• Series: EASA Series; Easa
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Latin America, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Indigenous Peoples, Social and cultural anthropology, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America