"Based on four years of ethnographic research, this book discusses the political, shamanic and mythological foundations of Areruya, an indigenous religious movement practiced by the Ingariko in Northern Amazonia. It reflects on cultural transformations, revealing how Areruya is not only a shamanic appropriation of Christianity, but also an indigenous and ritualized interpretation of colonization, whereby exogenous elements are corporally translated"--
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"Based on four years of ethnographic research, this book discusses the political, shamanic and mythological foundations of Areruya, an indigenous religious movement practiced by the Ingariko in Northern Amazonia. It reflects on cultural transformations, revealing how Areruya is not only a shamanic appropriation of Christianity, but also an indigenous and ritualized interpretation of colonization, whereby exogenous elements are corporally translated"--
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