Library Update 53 - Amerind

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>>2803546
A few words on "Dark Shamans: Kanaima and the Poetics of a Violent Death" -

Kanaima is a series of practices of the so called “assault sorcery” of Amazonia. The lay concept of the term is of any shaman that’s been possessed by the malignant spirit of the jaguar and goes on quasi lycanthropic killing sprees. In more recent times they have been recognized as the incarnate opposition to “Aleluia” or a synchretic Christian faith (Anglican in origin, rare for all the Catholic syncretisms)...the basic idea is that a native named Bichiwung got educated in Europe and tried to find God in a church...he found God but was told the Whites were fucking liars so he gave Bichiwung a book called “The Red Bible” which taught him how to revise shamanic practices for Jesus. Anyway he came back and the practices REALLY pissed the Kanaima off. They killed Bichiwung twice, and the prophet used his revised medicines to return from the dead. The third time they scattered his body to the corners of reality that it could not be raised. Aleluia is neat but not really the focus here; the assumption is that in dream God will impart ritual songs which must be preserved in the language they were delivered in -via dream- to remain effective. No translations allowed.
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>>2803560

The reality is rather more dense as it’s a tightly controlled system of initiatory magick involving the compulsive and ritualized murder of individuals (mostly hunting males) via beating half to death with a club, sexual assault with jagged tool, snake venom in the tongue, and after the body is interred, they will return to the grave site to extract “grave honey” or using a long pole to penetrate the grave and pull up the liquid result of putrefaction, shamanically mimicking the anteater, as well as the form of certain transgressive Buddhist and Saivist rituals. There was very little known about kanaima until Dr. Whitehead’s ethnography. This shamanic complex shares similarities with the Warao Hobeo (see: In Darkness and Secrecy chapter 1) that live a stonesthrow north in the Orinoco delta who focus veneration on a Death God manifested as the Macaw, but far more violent. They also share similarities with the Yanomami practices of funerary endocannibalism as well as the overarching doctrine of spirit occupation in the human body. It’s all in the book.

Anyhow this is the first public version of the document. I’m very proud to host it.

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>>2803568
>>2803560
Names of articles on bronze in Mesoamerica if you got JSTOR or w/e:

>Ancient West Mexican Metallurgy: South and Central American Origins and West Mexican Transformations
>Sound, Color and Meaning in the Metallurgy of Ancient West Mexico
>FOR WHOM THE BELLS FALL: METALS FROM THE CENOTE SAGRADO, CHICHÉN ITZÁ
>Metal Artifacts in Prehispanic Mesoamerica
>Metallurgical ceramics from Mayapán, Yucatán, Mexico
>The Huastec Region: A Second Locus for the Production of Bronze Alloys in Ancient Mesoamerica

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>>2803625
Bump for the vast majority of the Linda Schele series on Mesoamerican studies and the most fascinating ethnography to have been published in twenty years plus.

>>2803679
>Bump

Could I interest this /his/ board in actually history topical books, perhaps?

>>2803546
That looks like a Mignola.

>>2805378
>Mignola
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Fegredo

Says so at the bottom of the painting mate his signature's right there.

Back up top?

>>2803546
Hey Ape if you need any Meso sources you can get see if theres any of interest in my mega

https://mega.nz/#F!msA0Xb5Y!1t9OYAkkx0PUG8haYYiITw

I've been working on collecting stuff from north america and south america too.

>>2805968
Neat man thanks I'm gonna have to crawl through it and feel free to swipe anything I have for your own archives.