Crisis at the Border: Amazonian Relations with Spirits and Others (original) (raw)

Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits, 2017

Abstract

This chapter has as its theme a phenomenon called the “Crisis” by the indigenous peoples living in the Amazon region of the Brazilian/French Guyana border. It is an outbreak of attacks by spirits occurring inside and outside the different Christian churches in the indigenous area. The chapter shows that the Crisis has spread in the region through a common grammar based on shamanism, which conjoins the distinct forms of Christian religiosity and indigenous ritualistic practices through the permeability of the different worlds of the Amerindian cosmos and by their drive to alterity.

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