Hall of Mirrors by Laura Lewis

This book shows the extremely rich complex relationship that is built by through the ritual between Patamuna and kanaimà. By including it in his perspective-ring, political and cultural, it shows that this ritual condenses and expresses the culture patamuna. It does not just reproduce a series of acts according to traditional logic (Shamanic warrior) but returns to action on Patamuna of their own culture and history. It is both a link to the past but also an act of resistance and ex-collective pressure. The author joins very current issues of anthropologicalogy today. With an anthropology rooted ...