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Author:César Giraldo Herrera
Shamanism is commonly understood through reference to spirits and souls. However, these terms were introduced by Christian missionaries as part of the colonial effort of conversion. So, rather than trying to comprehend shamanism through medieval European concepts, this book examines it through ideas that started developing in the West after encountering Amerindian shamans. Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings develops three major arguments: First, since their earliest accounts Amerindian shamanic notions have had more in common with current microbial ecology than with Christian religious beliefs. Second, the human senses allow the unaided perception of the microbial world; for example, entoptic vision allows one to see microscopic objects flowing through the retina and shamans employ techniques that enhance precisely these kinds of perception. Lastly, the theory that some diseases are produced by living agents acquired through contagion was proposed right after Contact in relation to syphilis, an important subject of pre-Contact Amerindian medicine and mythology, which was treasured and translated by European physicians. Despite these early translations, the West took four centuries to rediscover germs and bring microbiology into mainstream science.
Giraldo Herrera reclaims this knowledge and lays the fundaments for an ethnomicrobiology. It will appeal to anyone curious about shamanism and willing to take it seriously and to those enquiring about the microbiome, our relations with microbes and the long history behind them.

Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings 1st Table of contents:

1. Colonized Selves, Decolonizing Ontologies

Part I

2. (Mis)Understanding Shamanism and Animism

3. First Contacts with Amerindian Shamans and Their ‘Spirits’

4. Syncretic Ontologies of the Microbial-Shamanic Beings

Part II

5. Shamanic Epistemologies

6. Neuropsychological Naturalistic Explanations of Shamanic Visions

7. The Cavern of the Eye: Seeing Through the Retina

8. Entoptic Microscopy

Part III

9. French Malaise in the Taino Myths of Origin

10. The Spotted Sun and the Blemished Moon, Nahuatl Views on Treponematoses

11. The West, Syphilis, and the Other Treponematoses

12. Threading Worlds Together

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