Shamanism, narratives and the structuring of illness

Abstract: This work examines how the narrative tradition of the Siona Indians regiments the illness experience into a structure of relevance and consequentiality as well as how it provides a model for the generation of persona/narratives. A text that can be considered a prototypical model of an illn...

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Main Author: E. Jean Matteson Langdon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Series:Horizontes Antropológicos
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-71831997000200187&lng=en&tlng=en