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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société des américanistes 2007-12-01
Series:Journal de la Société des Américanistes
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/6533
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