Mystic Endowment: Religious Ethnography of the Warao Indians (Religions of the World) - Softcover

Wilbert, Johannes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0945454058 ISBN 13: 9780945454052

Publisher: Center for the Study of World Religions, 1993

Synopsis

"Collection includes some of the author's most important essays written during 25 years of research among the Warao of the Orinoco Delta. Focus is on religious life, for which author provides in-depth comparative and historical interpretations of the symbolic values the Warao bestow on environmental, material, and social processes, revealing how Warao experience of life and the material conditions of existence are endowed with religious and mystical significance. This approach, outside of studies of the Guarani, has rarely been explored in South American ethnology"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

About this title

About the Author:

Johannes Wilbert is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Center for the Study of World Religions
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0945454058
• ISBN 13: 9780945454052
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 308