Wĩtsixuki: desejo alimentar, doença e morte entre os Wauja da Amazônia meridional
Witsixuki: food desire, illness and death among the Wauja of Southeastern Amazonia. This article is a Wauja ethnography of illness as an ontological mode of the transformation of sick humans into « bicho » (animal/spirit). I describe how unsatisfied desire for food, alterated bodily states, extreme...
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Main Author: | Aristóteles Barcelos Neto |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Société des américanistes
2007-12-01
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Series: | Journal de la Société des Américanistes |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/6533 |
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