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Cosmic reproduction, economics and politics among the Kulina of Southwest Amazonia


Web link: doi.wiley.com/10.1111/1...

Pages: 293 - 310

Abstract

Kulina cosmology legitimates the monopoly of the mystical means of reproduction by male shamans and leaders. This control is accompanied by a degree of manipulation of female sexuality and reproduction by shamanic and other means. It is also correlated with a hierarchical division of labour in which men are primary providers, and leaders are paradigmatic providers. This calls into question the commonly angelic or neo-Rousseauist vision of the indigenous societies of the Amazon as egalitarian.