Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings By C. E. Giraldo Herrera (2018)

Authors

  • Graham Harvey The Open University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/bar.11877

Keywords:

Animists, shamans, microbes, eyes, syphilis

Abstract

Review of César Enrique Giraldo Herrera, Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings. Engages with wider scholarship about historical and contemporary shamans and animists in the Carbbean, Central and South America. Argues the medical and epidemeological knowledge aids better understanding of what shamans do. In particular, the biology of eyes and relationships with microbes propels an argument for the value of Amerindian medical and relational knowleges. 

Author Biography

  • Graham Harvey, The Open University

    Graham Harvey is Professor of Religious Studies at the Open University, UK. His research is concerned with the performance and rhetoric of identities among Jews, Pagans and indigenous peoples. He is particularly interested in the "new animism", embracing relational and material approaches to interactions between humans and the larger than human world. His recent publications include The Handbook of Contemporary Animism (2013) and Food, Sex and Strangers: Understanding Religion as Everyday Life (2013).

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Published

2020-09-01

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1

Section

Reviews

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How to Cite

Harvey, G. (2020). Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings By C. E. Giraldo Herrera (2018). Body and Religion, 3(1), 94–96. https://doi.org/10.1558/bar.11877