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Item type:Publication, Palabra, visión y vínculo: ontología y performatividad del canto medicinal shipibo-konibo(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2026-07-30)This article analyzes the medicinal poetics of the Shipibo-Konibo nation of Ucayali, based on a study of healing chants performed by two onanya –Chonon Jisbe and Wexa Beso– during ayahuasca (oni) ceremonies. The research draws on recordings made in October 2024 and is grounded in a collaborative translation process with the indigenous healers themselves and other Shipibo-Konibo researchers. Through linguistic and pragmatic analysis of the chants, the article argues that these are not merely descriptive but performative acts: they heal, diagnose, open visionary worlds, and summon spiritual forces. From an indigenous perspective, the onanya’s word is effective because it is sustained by an initiatory process (sama) that transforms the body and forges a bond with non-human beings. The chant thus functions as a performative speech act whose power cannot be fully explained through conventional theoretical frameworks but instead through a sonic ontology in which saying is also doing. Medicinal poetics emerge as a relational and visionary knowledge system that challenges dominant epistemologies and demands ethical, co-produced engagement. In sum, the article proposes an indigenous theory of verbal agency, situated at the intersection of body, voice, and spiritual world. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Word, Vision, and Bond: The Ontology and Performativity of Shipibo-Konibo Medicinal Song Palabra, visión y vínculo: ontología y performatividad del canto medicinal shipibo-konibo(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2026-01-01)This article analyzes the medicinal poetics of the Shipibo-Konibo nation of Ucayali, based on a study of healing chants performed by two onanya –Chonon Jisbe and Wexa Beso– during ayahuasca (oni) ceremonies. The research draws on recordings made in October 2024 and is grounded in a collaborative translation process with the indigenous healers themselves and other Shipibo-Konibo researchers. Through linguistic and pragmatic analysis of the chants, the article argues that these are not merely descriptive but performative acts: they heal, diagnose, open visionary worlds, and summon spiritual forces. From an indigenous perspective, the onanya’s word is effective because it is sustained by an initiatory process (sama) that transforms the body and forges a bond with non-human beings. The chant thus functions as a performative speech act whose power cannot be fully explained through conventional theoretical frameworks but instead through a sonic ontology in which saying is also doing. Medicinal poetics emerge as a relational and visionary knowledge system that challenges dominant epistemologies and demands ethical, co-produced engagement. In sum, the article proposes an indigenous theory of verbal agency, situated at the intersection of body, voice, and spiritual world - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, La memoria del corazón: El viaje de Chihiro desde una lectura etnográfica japonesa y amazónica(Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia, 2026-07-21)This article proposes an interpretation of Spirited Away (dir. Hayao Miyazaki) based on certain parallels between traditional Japanese culture and Amazonian culture. Drawing on Japanese animist thought (animizumu) and the cosmological reflections of the indigenous nations of the western Amazon, especially the Shipibo-Konibo people, the links between spirituality, ecology, affection, and greed in the film's narrative are explored. Through the analysis of concepts such as kamikakushi, greed as a spiritual disease, the medicinal power of plants, and the performativity of language, a dialogue is established between ancestral Japanese narratives (especially Yanagita's The Legends of Tōno) and Amazonian indigenous epistemologies. It is argued that the film functions as a symbolic watershed that reactivates an “indigeneity of being” and articulates a cordial ethic of care and reciprocity with the beings of the territory, both human and non-human. Finally, it is proposed that animation can be understood as a tool for transmitting atavistic knowledge, capable of contributing to a critical cosmopoetics in the face of the dehumanizing effects of hegemonic modernity. This reading points to an ecological ethic that transcends cultural boundaries and affirms a relational vision of the world based on affection and memory. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Wakakuna and Warriors: An Ethnography of Ritual Warfare in the Huarochirí Manuscript (16th century)(Instituto Colombiano de Antropologia e Historia, 2026-01-01)This article analyzes the Huarochirí Manuscript and interprets it as a pioneering exercise in viceregal ethnography from an Amerindian perspective. Special attention is given to the descriptions of visionary (or “shamanic”) practices among the pre-Columbian nations of the Huarochirí region (central highlands of Peru), with emphasis on the relationship between the waka and warfare. As a text written by an Indigenous scholar, the information it provides offers an insider’s view of certain aspects of Andean ritual practices and cosmogonies. Despite the possible cultural pressures experienced by the author under the establishment of viceregal society and the campaigns to extirpate “idolatries”, the manuscript reveals a profound knowledge of ritual practices that connected human warfare with the waka.2