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dc.contributor.authorGROTTI, Vanessa
dc.contributor.authorBRIGHTMAN, Marc
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-19T13:45:56Z
dc.date.available2016-12-19T13:45:56Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationSocial analysis, 2016, Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 92–109en
dc.identifier.issn0155-977X
dc.identifier.issn1558-5727
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/44511
dc.description.abstractShamanic knowledge is based on an ambiguous commensality with invisible others. As a result, shamans oscillate constantly between spheres of intimacy, both visible and invisible. A place of power and transformation, the spirit world is rarely described by native interlocutors in an objective, detached way; rather, they depict it in terms of events and experiences. Instead of examining the formal qualities of accounts of the spirit world through analyses of ritual performance and shamanic quests, we focus on life histories as autobiographical accounts in order to explore what they reveal about the relationship between personal history (and indigenous historicity) and the spirit world. We introduce the term ‘double reflexivity’ to refer to processes by which narratives about the self are produced through relationships with alterity.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherBerghahn Journalsen
dc.relation.ispartofSocial analysisen
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.titleNarratives of the invisible autobiography, kinship, and alterity in native Amazoniaen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.3167/sa.2016.600107
dc.identifier.volume60en
dc.identifier.startpage92en
dc.identifier.endpage109en
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