{"product_id":"the-shamanism-of-eco-tourism-history-and-ontology-among-the-makushi-in-guyana-hardback-9781009478403","title":"The Shamanism of Eco-Tourism; History and Ontology among the Makushi in Guyana (Hardback) 9781009478403","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Shamanism of Eco-Tourism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHistory and Ontology among the Makushi in Guyana\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book explores the influence of shamanism on past and present Indigenous engagements with outside visitors in Guyana.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames Andrew Whitaker (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009478403, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 February 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e228 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 1.8 cm, 0.48 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'In this finely conceived volume, Whitaker has traced two hundred years of how the Makushi have transformed outsiders, especially missionaries and tourists, into parts of a long-established social order, thereby maintaining their society and cosmology despite numerous threats.' Mark Harris, University of Adelaide\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn the first book in English to focus specifically on the Makushi in Guyana, James Andrew Whitaker examines how shamanism informs Makushi interactions with outsiders in the context of historical missionization and contemporary tourism. The Makushi are an Indigeneous people who speak a Cariban language and live in Guyana, Brazil, and Venezuela. Combining ethnohistory, ethnographic fieldwork, and archival research, this book elucidates a shamanic framework that is seen in Makushi engagements with outsiders in the past and present. It shows how this framework structures interactions between Makushi groups and various visitors in Guyana. Similar to how Makushi shamans draw in spirit allies, Makushi groups seek human outsiders and form strategic partnerships with them to obtain desired resources that are used for local goals and transformative projects. The book advances recent scholarship concerning ontological relations in Amazonia and is positioned at the cusp of debates over Amazonian relations with alterity.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Fetching the outside among the Makushi\u003cbr\u003e 2. Eco-Tourism and development in Surama Village\u003cbr\u003e 3. Missionaries, explorers, and other Spirits\u003cbr\u003e 4. Transformation and otherness: Prophetic movements in the aftermath of early missionization\u003cbr\u003e 5. Spirits in the landscape: Makushi Shamanism and ecological relations\u003cbr\u003e 6. Tourists as shamanic spirits: strategic engagements with the other\u003cbr\u003e 7. Becoming the other: shifting alterity In Surama Village\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of the Americas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of the Americas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20the%20Americas%20%5BHBJK%5D%22\"\u003eHBJK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52414080549144,"sku":"9781009478403","price":73.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009478403i.jpg?v=1784337168","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-shamanism-of-eco-tourism-history-and-ontology-among-the-makushi-in-guyana-hardback-9781009478403","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}