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Huichol conceptions of the soul
Folklore Americas • 27 (2) • Published In 1967 • Pages: 39-106
By: Furst, Peter T..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
During fieldwork conducted in the mid-1960s the author found that traditional Huichol religion remained fundamentally unaltered by Christian influence. The Huichol continued to recognize a number of pre-Christian gods, divine beings, ancestral spirits, and ”owners” or spirits of animals and plants believed to govern both the fertility of the land and the welfare of individuals and families. Descriptions are given of burial practices and healing rituals in which guardian spirits and ancestral souls are personified and beseeched. As in pre-Christian times, the [n]mara'akáme[n] (shaman) continued to play important roles in mediating the powers of these supernatural beings.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- General character of religion
- Animism
- Eschatology
- Cult of the dead
- Burial practices and funerals
- Mythology
- Cosmology
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Magical and mental therapy
- Medical therapy
- Revelation and divination
- Theory of disease
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Huichol
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northern Mexico
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2015
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1965-1967
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1965-1967
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southern Sierra Madre Occidental (Nayarit, Jalisco, Durango, and Zacatecas), Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Peter T. Furst
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-106)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 58001895
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Huichol Indians