Cosmology, Crisis, and Paradox: On the White Spirit in the Kuna Shamanistic Tradition
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https://doi.org/10.14672/ada2011167%25pKeywords:
Cosmology, Trauma, Kuna, Shamanism, ArtAbstract
How is it possible to inscribe the memory of a collective crisis, of a social trauma, in the memory of a society? How can a ritual tradition represent social trauma in the form of an experience? To answer these general questions, I will analyze a quite recent transformation in the shamanic tradition of the Kuna of Panama: the invention of a spirit that represents, in supernatural terms, the intervention of the most powerful of the traditional enemies of the Kuna society, i.e. the white man.
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