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The article discusses relations with the dead, forms of metamorphosis, and the role of religious specialists among Chibcha (Kogi, Barí), Carib (Yukpa), and Arawakan (Wayuu) groups of northwestern South America. Each of these groups deviates from standard understandings of Amazonian animism. Despite their heterogeneity, the groups share a belief in a continuous interaction with the dead and, at the...
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