Cubeo Hehenewa Religious Thought
Irving. Goldman
Bok Engelsk 2004 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | New York : : Columbia University Press, , 2004.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (487 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Editor's Acknowledgments; Editor's Preface; Editor's Introduction; 1. Introduction; Background; The Subject of Religion; 2. Creation and Emergence; I. Process in Creation; The Küwaiwa; Küwaiwa: Creation and the Creation Deities; The Anacondas; The Ancients; Yurédo; II. Social Principles; Emergence of the Sibs; Prototypes; Patriliny; Hierarchy; Animal Associations; 3. The Social Order; I. The Tribe; The Human Being; The Social System; The Tribe; The Ancient Moiety System; Territory; Tribal Cohesion; II. The Phratry from Without; The Expanded Tribal Organization; Hehénewa. - Formation of the Phratries Organization of the Hehénewa; Bahúkiwa; The Hehénewa Phratry as Listed by the Bahúkiwa; Discussion; III. The Phratry from Within; Hierarchical Structure; Birth/Emergency Order; Seniority of Descent; Anaconda/River; Consanguine Kin Relations; Ritual Functions; Dyadic Hierarchy of Dominance/Subordination; IV. The External Role of Phratry: The Sib; Authority and Power; Chiefship; Class; The Sib; Sib Names; V. The Inner Working of the Sib; Kinship; Consanguineal Kin; The Opposing Generations; The Generation of Siblings; The Community of Kinship; Marriage. - III. Instruments, Implements, and Dances Masks (Tawü); The Community of Spirits (Tuwaharía); Heads of the Tawü (Hehénewa Version); The Ensemble of Masks; The Jüdjüko and Jüdjükü; Sadness Abandoned (Chionye Jaruwaino); 8. Shamans, Jaguars, and Thunderers; I. History; Introduction; The Origin Tradition: Structural Order; Transformative Agents; The Shamanic Vision; II. Becoming a Payé and Curing; Master and Pupil; The Qualities of a Payé: "Seeing"; Illness and Disease; Illness, Cure, and Myth; 9. Concepts of Power; Ethnicity; Primary Powers; Secondary Powers; Powers of Payés and Laymen. - Mind and Body. - The Festival of Abundance (Upáiweteno)4. Daily Life at Ground Level; The Connubial Household; The Residential Site; The Maloca (Kenámi, Kurámi); The Chagra; Origins of Horticulture; The Myths of Horticulture; Productivity of the Garden; The River (Hyá); Food and Nutrition; Social Relations in Food and Eating; Religious Foundations of Diet (Hava); Hot and Cold; Purity: Fasting and Vomiting; 5. The Cosmic Order; Introduction; Cosmic Realms; The Earth (Habóno; Habóno Mahékru Tükübü); The Order of Earthly Existence; Diurnal and Seasonal Rhythms and Cycles; The Intervals of Night and Day; The Day. - The Seasons Realm of Vultures (Kavá); Realm of the Dolphins (Mamüwühyá); Realm of the Moon; Realm of the Sun; Realm of the Stars; Realm of Kúwai; Animals and the Cubeo; The Classification of Nature; 6. The Ritual Order; I. The Order of Being; Introduction; Life-Cycle Rituals; Initiation Rites; II. Analysis; III. Rituals of Training; Bedéino; Variability; 7. Death and Mourning; I. Dogma; The Mythology of Death; Interpretation; Burial (Yuaí'no); Interlude; II. Rituals; Drinking the Bones (Kwánkoro); Óyno; Burning the Masks (Tajwáino); Transformations; The Maloca. - The societies of the Vaupés region are now among the most documented indigenous cultures of the New World, in part because they are thought to resemble earlier civilizations lost during initial colonial conflict. Here at last is the eagerly awaited publication of a posthumous work by the man widely regarded as the preeminent authority on Vaupés Amazonian societies. Cubeo Hehénewa Religious Thought will be the definitive account of the religious worldview of a significant Amazonian culture. Cubeo religious thought incorporates ideas about the nature of the cosmos, society, and human life;
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