In darkness and secrecy  the anthropology of assault sorcery and witchcraft in Amazonia /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Neil L. Whitehead and Robin Wright. 
 - Durham, NC :  Duke University Press,  2004. 
 - 327 p. :  ill. 
 - e-Duke books scholarly collection. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>The anthropology of assault sorcery and witchcraft / Neil L. Whitehead and Robin Wright -- The order of dark shamans among the Warao / Johannes Wilbert -- Dark shamans and the shamanic state : sorcery and witchcraft as political process in Guyana and the Venezuelan Amazon / Silvia Vidal and Neil L. Whitehead  -- The wicked and the wise men : witches and prophets in the history of the Northwest Amazon / Robin Wright -- Sorcery beliefs, transmission of shamanic knowledge,  and therapeutic practice among the Desana of the Upper Rio Negro Region, Brazil / Dominique Buchillet -- The glorious tyranny of silence and the resonance of shamanic breath / George Mentore -- A blend of blood and tobacco : shamans and jaguars among the Parakan of Eastern Amazonia / Carlos Fausto -- The wars within Xinguano witchcraft and the balance of power / Michael Heckenberger -- Siblings and sorcerers : the paradox of kinship among the Kulina / Don Pollock -- Being alone amid others : sorcery and morality amongst the Arara, Carib, Brazil / Nio Teixeira Pinto -- Sorcery and shamanism in Cashinahua discourse and praxis, Purus River, Brazil / Elsje Lagrou -- The enemy within : child sorcery, revolution, and the evils of modernization in  Eastern Peru / Fernando Santos-Granero. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780822385837 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Witchcraft--Amazon River Region.<br/>Magic--Amazon River Region.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BF1566  / .I5 2004