The Last Shaman: Change in an Amazonian Community: v. 2 (Arakmbut of Amazonian Peru)

by Andrew Gray (Author)

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  Paperback
  2002

  $43.35

  The death of a shaman in 1980 had an enormous spiritual and political consequences for one of the Arakmbut communities, resulting in a shift in its social organization from comparative hierarchy to a more egalitarian system. The author uses this case as an illustration to challenge the idea that indigenous peoples live in fossilized, static worlds.