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Culture Summaryessay 2012 • Perrin, Michel
Goajiro • South America > Northwestern South America
This is a culture summary of the Guajiro people. Information is presented on major aspects of the Guajiro culture....Shamanistic symptoms or symbols?article 1987 • Perrin, Michel
Goajiro • South America > Northwestern South America
The way the Guajiro or their shamans describe the signs of a shamanistic calling and function suggests to a Western observer that these signs are symptoms of mental disorders, more precisely of hysteria. In Guajiro thinking, however, these signs, whi...