Vital Souls: Bororo Cosmology, Natural Symbolism, and Shamanism"Vital Souls relates in an ethnographic fashion how the Bororo Indians of central Brazil understand their lives in terms of the bope, describing how they employ shamanism and symbolic thought to deal with illness and accident, sex and marriage, birth and death, and how they relate the human life cycle to natural processes. More central to the investigation, the author reveals how shamans of the aroe have disappeared from Bororo life. This is the first volume of the series, The Anthropology of Form and Meaning."-- |
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Why the Bororo? | 3 |
Notes 341 | 12 |
Shamanism and Society | 17 |
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