Contact Crisis: Shamanic Explorations of Virtual and Possible Worlds
Keywords:
shamanism, contact, worlds-making, temporality, Amazonia, Shipibo-ConiboAbstract
This article seeks to understand why something
I had presumed to be problematic—the crisis that contact
with the West must have inevitably provoked in shamanic
practice—has not been so for the Shipibo-Conibo shamans. To
account for the shamans' different experience of contact, we
will explore their radically different ontology, which is based
on another enactment of living "worlds" and temporality.
Taking the shamans' ontology seriously into account will allows
us to illustrate other ways of actualizing reality and to prob
lematize the common distinction between the illusory and
imaginary aspects of religion versus the reality of history and
contact.
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