“Visit to the House of the Jaguars”: Contextualization in Narratives about Extraordinary Experiences
Keywords:
shamanism, transmission of knowledge, contextualization, indexicality, performanceAbstract
Among the Siona indians, shamanic flights and encounters in the invisible world are recreated through oral performance. With the objective of exploring the relation between narrative performance, the creation of extraordinary experience and shamanic perspective, the article analyzes a narrative that tells of the visit to the house of the jaguars by a young apprentice and his master-shaman. This trip to the hidden side doesn’t occur during the ritual and under the influence of yajé, but in the following morning, when the novice is returning to his home. The analysis points out at the strategies of contextualization in narrative performance that work to create experience, transmit shamanic knowledge and reflect upon change of perspective and shamanic power.
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Déléage, Pierre. 2009. “Les savoirs et leurs modes de transmission dans le chamanisme sharanahua”. Cahiers d’Anthropologie Sociale 5: 63-85.
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Fausto, Carlos. 2007. “Eating Animals and Humans in Amazonia”. Current Anthropology 48 (4): 497-530.
Kelly, José Antonio. 2001. “Fractalidade e troca de perspectivas”. Mana 7 (2): 95-132.
Kracke, Waud. 1987. “Everyone Who Dreams Has a Bit of Shaman: Cultural and Personal Meanings of Dreams. Evidence from the Amazon”. Psychiatric Journal of the University of Ottawa 12 (2): 66-72.
Laderman, Carol y Marina Roseman, comps. 1986. The Performance of Healing. Nueva York: Routledge.
Langdon, Esther Jean. 1979. “Yagé among the Siona: Cultural Patterns and Visions”. En Spirits, Shamans and Stars: Perspectives from South America, compilado por David Browman y Ronald A. Schwarz, 63-82. The Hague: Mouton Publishers.
___. 1986. “Las clasificaciones del yagé dentro del grupo siona: etnobotánica, etnoquímica e historia”. América Indígena 46 (1): 101-116.
___. 1992. “A cultura siona e a experiência alucinogêna”. En Grafismo indígena: estudos de antropologia estética, editado por Lux Vidal, 67-87. São Paulo: Editor Nobel.
___. 1995. “A morte e corpo dos xamãs nas narrativas siona”. Revista de Antropología 38 (02):107-149.
___. 2004. “Shamanismo y sueños: subjetividad y representaciones de sí mismo en narrativas de sueños siona”. En Los mundos de abajo y los mundos de arriba: individuos y sociedad en las tierras bajas y los Andes. Homenaje a Gerhard Baer, compilado por María Susana Cipolletti, 26-51. Quito: Abya-Yala.
___. 2013. “La eficacia simbólica de los rituales: del ritual a la performance”. En Ayahuasca y salud, compilado por Beatriz C. Labate y José Carlos Bouso, 80-119. Barcelona: Los Libros de La Liebre de Marzo.
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White, Hayden. 1981. “The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality”. En On Narrative, compilado por W. J. T. Mitchell, 1-24. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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2013-06-01
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Jean Langdon, E. (2013). “Visit to the House of the Jaguars”: Contextualization in Narratives about Extraordinary Experiences. Revista Colombiana De Antropología, 49(1), 129–152. Retrieved from https://revistas.icanh.gov.co/index.php/rca/article/view/297
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