[JSRNC 11.2 (2017) 274-276] https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.34228 JSRNC (print) ISSN 1749-4907 JSRNC (online) ISSN 1749-4915 _________________________ Book Review _________________________ The Editors welcome articles, reviews and research notes for publication in future issues of . Submitted articles are subject to a blind, peer review process. Please adhere to the guidelines below when preparing submissions for the journal. Robin M. Wright, Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwestern Amazon (Lincoln: Submission of articles Press, to should normally be done via the University of Nebraska 2013), 408 pp., $47.34 (hbk), ISBN: 978-0-80324-394-1. journal’s website at www.equinoxjournals.com. You will need to register with the website an author, and on follow the instructions and guidelines relating to submission. Robin M. as Wright’s book shamanistic practice and its underlying metaphysics Authors are unable to use this website for Amazonian on-line submission should contact the among the who Baniwa, an indigenous group of the rain forest whose territory editors for on how to submit their manuscripts. straddles theadvice national borders of Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela, appears as a Articles are normally (we also accept articles in Spanish, Galician, welcome companion piecein toEnglish the much-lauded book The Falling Sky: Words of a Portuguese or French) not exceed 8,000 words, inclusive of endnotes and Yanomami Shaman (2013)and byshould Davi Kopenawa, written in collaboration with French 1 included, but are included in the total word count. references. Appendices may be In a similar vein, Wright provides his exploration of anthropologist Bruce Albert. Authors should ensure that all submissions, whether elements. first or revised versions, arewe Baniwa cosmology with important (auto-)biographical On the one side, anonymised to facilitate blindstrenuous reviewing.life Authors’ andlast institutional affiliations gain a rare insight into the of onenames of the active ‘true pajés’ or should appear in theon covering email message. shamans of the only Baniwa; the other hand, this book could not have been written Submission of an article or book of review is taken himself to imply to thatthe it has not previously without the lifelong commitment the author differential world been published or is not being considered for publication elsewhere. If an author is making of a marginalized (from our perspective) indigenous people. Having written publishingon a related elsewhere, factanti-colonial should be stated. In general, authors are extensively Baniwaarticle cosmology andthis ritual, prophetic movements, and submit no more than one articlemovement, for review in a two-year period. theasked moretorecent evangelical conversion this time Wright focuses on traditional shamanism as a struggling ‘local reserve’ against the onslaught of globalizing forces. As we learn from this book, the point is not so much the imminent loss of If yourdiversity, submissionbut is clearly unsuitable for publication , you cultural the lrm conviction of Baniwainreligious specialists that this will will be promptly notified by thethe Editors. If, after the review process, for your article is world come to an end when ritual accompaniment necessary enlivenment acceptedinforThis publication, you will be asked to submit the manuscript again, incorporating processes World stops. any for, and in a format readytofor publication. Therevisions capacityasked of Baniwa savants literally ‘deify’ themselves as embodiments of When the Editorsin confirm to be youable thatto your submission has been publithe creator divinities order to protect and channel theaccepted forces offor life can be cation you should prepare a final version of the article in accordance with the guidelines considered as the ‘mystery’ of Baniwa theology. In this perspective Wright’s book is contributors available on journal’semerging website. Ifdebate your article includes any figures or an for important contribution to the a recently on the (ideological) sustaincomplex tables, please pay special attention to of theimminent guidelinesecological on preparing and submitting ability of indigenous cosmologies in the face destruction. Ironiartwork. cally, appeals to consult indigenous savants as ‘experts on the end of the world’ (Danowski and Viveiros de Castro 2014) are of course not without their own tradition.2 In the book, things commence on a more mundane level as we read of the trajectory of It is your responsibility to ensure you have as obtained permissions to reproduce Mandu da Silva, considered by histhat constituents a ‘true’any or ‘Jaguar shaman’ equipped any part of another work. If your article contains extracts from other works, especially as this with likewise powerful forces (accumulated during his inter-ethnic sojourns) figures, tables, poetry etc.,Amazonian please contact theforest. authorsIn and publishers before submitting charismatic animal of the rain order to release particularistic the final versionthe to seek permission to usecalls their on work. primary data is to of be included, social tensions, religious specialist theIfuniversal forces the ‘Other research participants should have signed a consent form. World’. All contributors whose articles are accepted for publication will be required to sign a copyright assignment form, and to confirm that their article is original, accurate 1. See Wright’s review of The Falling Sky inand JSRNC (inasmuch as can be ascertained in research), does10.2 not (2016): include245-54. any libellous 2 . See, for example, the speech of Sealth, aka Chief Seattle (McKenzie 2005: 1511statements. 12). © Equinox Publishing Ltd 2017, 415 The Workstation, 15 Paternoster Row, Shefleld S1 2BX. Book Review 275 Another ‘mystery’ of Amazonian shamanism is that physical appearances in This World hide a ‘really real’ essence that originates in primordial creative time that only shamanistic expertise can access. One means to do this is the skilled handling of the hallucinogenic snuff, paricá, by which the shaman acquires lrsthand experience of the powerful forces and divine agents of the Other World.3 Wright’s decade-long collaboration with Baniwa shamans allows us to catch a glimpse of the shaman’s crucial encounter witharticles, Kuwai,reviews the keyand lgure of the Baniwa pantheon. Described The Editors welcome research notes for publication in future issues in stark a reversal of hispeer birth passage, when of images, the shaman apprentice . Submitted experiences articles are subject to a blind, review process. he Please is pulled up to into sky by below the cosmic umbilicalsubmissions cord. Bodyfor images are largely adhere thethe guidelines when preparing the journal. modeled on female procreative passages and it is important that shamans acquire an adequate body to be able to perform their work, ultimately assuming the ‘subjectivity and agency of of a Creator (p. 75). A shaman’s should skill is principally Submission articles Deity’ to normally be centered done viaon thethe control of ‘open’ or ‘closed’ body passages: whether it is a cosmic passage he travels journal’s website at www.equinoxjournals.com. You will need to register with the along into as theanOther World, or it the is his own body extracting the bodies website author, and follow instructions and guidelinessickness relating from to submission. of his patients. Theunable role model Baniwafor shaman’s habitus is should Kuwai,contact an entity Authors who are to use for thisawebsite on-line submission the of excessive dimensions. Wright’s representation of the Kuwai myth and his masterly editors for advice on how to submit their manuscripts. comments me, theinhighlight of this It is impossible recap the Articlesare, aretonormally English (we alsovolume. accept articles in Spanish,toGalician, narrative in aor few words, but suflce to say 8,000 that Kuwai’s eventualof death leaves, Portuguese French) and should notitexceed words, inclusive endnotes andon thereferences. one hand,Appendices destructive forces in the form sicknesses necessitating the jaguar may be included, but areofincluded in the total word count. shaman’s work in This World; other hand, he leaves therevised primordial means Authors should ensure that on all the submissions, whether first or versions, are of enlivenment of blind the sacred instruments, mutes,and and trumpets,affiliations which are anonymisedin to form facilitate reviewing. Authors’ names institutional should appear the covering email message.in the Northwestern Amazon. The sounded duringonly the in grandiose rites of passage Submission of an article or book reviewinisataken to imply thatthe it has not previously sound of the wind instruments channels controlled way creative sounds of been published or ‘open’ is not being for publication Kuwai’s excessively body considered during mythical times. elsewhere. If an author is publishing a related factthis should be (or stated. In general, authors are in Wright’s book alsoarticle gives elsewhere, us a clue tothis how Kuwai Yurupary, as he is called to submit than one articleregion) for review in a two-year period. theasked vernacular on no themore Upper Rio Negro religion is anchored in the mind of the Baniwa and their related Arawak- and Tukano-speaking neighbors. While the universe of the spatially distributed sets of sacred instruments of the various ethnic If yourphratries, submission is sibs clearly unsuitable for publication in of the territory, the vertical , you groups, and form a veritable ‘soundscape’ will be promptlybynotified by thesavants Editors. with If, after the review process, your be article cosmos travelled the Baniwa dozens of layers may also laid isout accepted for publication, you will besystem asked toofsubmit the manuscriptAmazon. again, incorporating horizontally over the hydrographic the Northwestern The ubiquianyrock revisions and in a of format readyevents for publication. tous art is asked ‘livingfor, memory’ mythical and makes the riverine passages the Editors confirm to you that your submission hasthe been accepted for publiinto aWhen veritable ‘mythscape’ (Chapter 5). Within this setting religious virtuosi stage cation you should prepare and a final version primordial of the articlepowers in accordance with the guidelines their dramas that reaflrm transmit to their clientele, the terriforthey contributors the journal’s website. yourremains article includes any figures or tory indwell,available and its on natural resources. But If there the question of what complex tables, please pay special attention to contribute the guidelines preparing and submitting these indigenous cosmologies might really to on a viable planetary future. artwork. In the last chapter Wright discusses some recent examples of world making among the Baniwa. First, Wright criticizes the encroachment of evangelical Christianity, which not only vehemently opposes traditional forms of shamanism and ritual but It is your responsibility ensurefor that you have obtained permissions to reproduce also creates the habitualtobasis what Wright calls any an ‘entrepreneurial culture’, any part of another work. If your article contains extracts from other works, especially which again is harnessed by a powerful NGO investing in projects of ‘differential’ figures, tables, poetry and etc., fair please contact the authorsofand publishers before submitting indigenous education commercialization forest products. Wright clearly the with final version to seek permission to usetraditional their work. communities If primary datatrying is to betoincluded, sides alternative attempts of more revitalize participants should have signed a consent form.would have wished that more theresearch aesthetics of Baniwa ritual. This reader, however, All contributors whose articles are accepted for publication will the be required to sign analytical attention could have been given to the reasons for why Baniwa shamans a copyright assignment form, and to confirm that their article is original, accurate (inasmuch as can be ascertained in research), and does not include any libellous 3. Paricá is widely used in this area of the Amazon in powder form, derived from statements. the phloem of a tree from the nutmeg family. © Equinox Publishing Ltd 2017. 276 Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture seem to lght their last stand. One cannot overlook that the stance on nativistic purity (and its ‘rule of non-mixture’, p. 289) by shamanic elders like Mandu might not be an option anymore in our globalized society. To me the most impressive insight into Baniwa cosmology and ritual—masterfully represented by Wright—is the peoples’ conviction that the cosmos depends on the active intervention of humans. I would venture to say that the aesthetics of the Kuwai / Yuruparí religion surely encourages the people of the Northwestern relate The Editors welcome articles, reviews and research notes for publicationAmazon in future to issues in of a sustainable way to .their environment. wouldto not, however, categorically Submitted articles areIsubject a blind, peer review process. preclude that the of this aesthetic cannot besubmissions upheld also the context Please adhere toessentials the guidelines below when preparing forwithin the journal. of new ‘hybrid’ or ‘mixed’ cultural contexts. To sum up, Wright’s book overmows with ethnographic detail, is beautifully written,Submission and is theoretically by the phenomenological approach to indigenous of articlesbuttressed to should normally be done via the religions advanced by Lawrence E. Sullivan. Indeed, Sullivan’s magnum opus journal’s website at www.equinoxjournals.com. You will need to register with the Icanchu’s (1988) was in itselfthe strongly inmuenced by Wright’s then unpublished websiteDrum as an author, and follow instructions and guidelines relating to submission. dissertation! Mysteries of to theuse Jaguar Shamans effortlessly understandable to the nonAuthors who are unable this website forison-line submission should contact anthropologists. And like these are less a melancholic glimpse of editors for advice on importantly, how to submitworks their manuscripts. the past than are encouragement to think(we up aalso viable future. Articles normally in English accept articles in Spanish, Galician, Portuguese or French) and should not exceed 8,000 words, inclusive of endnotes and Wolfgang Kapfhammer references. Appendices may be included, but are included in the total word count. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Authors should ensure that all submissions, whether first or revised versions, are Wolfgang.Kapfhammer@lmu.de anonymised to facilitate blind reviewing. Authors’ names and institutional affiliations should appear only in the covering email message. Submission of an article or book review is taken to imply that it has not previously References been published or is not being considered for publication elsewhere. If an author is Danowski, Eduardo Viveiros deshould Castro. HáInmundo porauthors vir?: Ensaio publishingDéborah, a related and article elsewhere, this fact be2014. stated. general, are sobre medos os lnsthan (Florianópolis: Cultura e Barbárie / ISA, Desterro). asked to os submit noe more one article forBR: review in a two-year period. McKenzie, Michael. 2005. ‘Seattle (Sealth), Chief (ca. 1790-1866)’, in Bron Taylor (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (London: Continuum): 1511-12. Sullivan, Lawrence isEugene. 1988. Icanchu’s Drum: in South American Religions: If your submission clearly unsuitable for publication , youAn to notified Meaningby (London: Collier Macmillan). willOrientation be promptly the Editors. If, after the review process, your article is accepted for publication, you will be asked to submit the manuscript again, incorporating any revisions asked for, and in a format ready for publication. When the Editors confirm to you that your submission has been accepted for publication you should prepare a final version of the article in accordance with the guidelines for contributors available on the journal’s website. If your article includes any figures or complex tables, please pay special attention to the guidelines on preparing and submitting artwork. It is your responsibility to ensure that you have obtained any permissions to reproduce any part of another work. If your article contains extracts from other works, especially figures, tables, poetry etc., please contact the authors and publishers before submitting the final version to seek permission to use their work. If primary data is to be included, research participants should have signed a consent form. All contributors whose articles are accepted for publication will be required to sign a copyright assignment form, and to confirm that their article is original, accurate (inasmuch as can be ascertained in research), and does not include any libellous statements. © Equinox Publishing Ltd 2017.