¿Mueren en realidad los chamanes?: narraciones de los siona sobre chamanes muertos

E. Jean Langdon ^[1]
1. [1] Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
  
  Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
  
  Brasil
Localización: Alteridades, ISSN-e 2448-850X, ISSN 0188-7017, Vol. 6, Nº. 12, 1996 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Antropología de la curación), págs. 61-77
Idioma: español
Títulos paralelos:
- Are shamans actually dying? Narrative of the Siona regarding dead shamans
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Resumen
- Narrative is a mechanism for the conservation of oral tradition. In daily life stories, the Siona expose the correspondence of their cosmology with dreams. The article examines, within this culture from Yahé, the conceptions regarding life and death, specially those of the shamans. The body of the shaman has the power of transforming itself into animals. A normal Siona loses his material body upon death, shamans have a first death with an initiation without the needt o lose their body, although they change their names. When they leave this world, they stay as star figures and carry on having a important role amongst the Siona