Cosmología y shamanismo de los matsiguenga
Subtitle: Perú Oriental
By: Gerhard Baer ; [traducción, María Susana Cipolletti].
Edition: 1. ed.
Series: Colección "Biblioteca Abya-Yala" ;; 15
Publisher: Ediciones Abya-Yala
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Quito, Ecuador
Language: spa
Number of pages: 389
Subjects: Machiguenga Indians -- Religion.; Machiguenga Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.; Machiguenga Indians -- Social life and customs.
Description: "Religious ethnography focuses on the Arawak-speaking Machiguenga of the eastern Peruvian Amazon. Religion is understood as a system of orientation to reality and meaning, and is explored through classification of being, conceptions of sickness and health, and the central role of shamanism. Extensive appendix contains a collection of myth summaries"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-389)
Original version: Die Religion der Matsigenka, Ost-Peru. Basel :Wepf & Co., 1984.