AJAPÜJAWA (DREAM SPIRIT) IN THE WAYUU DEATH AND VENGEANCE RITUALS

The wayuu are an Indian people of the Arawak linguistic family which lives in the Guajira Peninsula, in Northeast Colombia, on the Caribbean Sea, and the Western border of Venezuela. This paper studies the relation between existing and expressed ajapüjawa (dream spirit) and other beings (plants, dea...

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Main Author: Fanny Longa Romero
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2010-12-01
Series:Espaço Ameríndio
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Online Access:http://seer.ufrgs.br/EspacoAmerindio/article/view/17108