Variaciones chamánicas: un viaje conceptual más allá de lo humano

Diego Mellado Gómez

doi:10.5354/0719-790X.2020.58210

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Shamanic variations: a conceptual journey beyond the human

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Diego Mellado Gómez Universidad de Santiago de Chile

No. 8 (2020): Enero-Julio 2020

https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-790X.2020.58210

Abstract

The following article presents a critical and expansive analysis of shamanism, articulating three moments that develop different approaches around this category. Through an introduction that explains the etymological origin of the term shaman, the first section is developed around the canonical approaches of Mircea Eliade and Claude Lévi-Strauss, oriented to the history of religion and psychology respectively. With this background, a second moment arises following the copernican turn of Pierre Clastres, which places shamanic practice from the angle of political power, discourse and metaphysics. In an exercise to expand this route, the third section delves into the amerindian perspectivism through notes from contemporary brazilian anthropology. This trip concludes with the words of the Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa, who opens the shamanic reflection on current times and his vision of the fall of the sky.

Keywords:

shamanism, Amerindian perspectivism, perception, political anthropology

Author Biography

Diego Mellado Gómez, Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Candidato a Doctor en Estudios Americanos, mención Pensamiento y Cultura, en la Universidad de Santiago de Chile (Instituto IDEA); Santiago, Chile (Becario ANID. Tesista en proyecto Fondecyt N° 1190337 “Ontología política del placer”). Licenciado en Filosofía por la Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

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Mellado Gómez, D. (2020). Shamanic variations: a conceptual journey beyond the human. Resonancias. Revista De Filosofía, (8), 87–108. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-790X.2020.58210