Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings

Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings

Giraldo Herrera, Cesar E.

Springer International Publishing AG

03/2018

274

Dura

Inglês

9783319713175

15 a 20 dias

4854


ebook

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1. Colonising and decolonising ontologies.- Part 1: Amerindian shamanism.- 2. (Mis)Understanding shamanism and animism.- 3. First contacts with Amerindian shamans and their "spirits".- 4. Syncretic ontologies of the microbial-masters of game.- Part 2: Shamanic microscopy, perceiving cellular souls and microbial spirits.- 5. Shamanic epistemologies.- 6. Neuropsychological naturalistic explanations of shamanic visions.- 7. The cavern of the eye: seeing through the retina.- 8. Entoptic microscopy.- Part 3: Biosocial Ethnohistory of Syphilis and Related Diseases.- 9. French malaise in the Taino myths of origin.- 10. The spotted Sun and the blemished Moon, Nahuatl views on treponematoses.- 11. The West, Syphilis and the other treponematoses.- 12. Threading worlds together.
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Medical Anthropology;Cultural Anthropology;Science and Technology Studies;Shamanism;Postcolonialism;Amerindian shamans;pre-Contact Amerindian medicine;ethnomicrobiology;microbiome;Shamanic microscopy;entoptic vision;Entoptic microscopy;Biosocial Ethnohistory of Syphilis;Theory of Contagion;Ontological Theory of Disease