{"id":166,"date":"2021-04-14T16:56:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T16:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/?p=166"},"modified":"2021-04-15T19:41:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T19:41:14","slug":"agencias-elementares-hekura-em-plotkin-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/2021\/04\/14\/agencias-elementares-hekura-em-plotkin-1993\/","title":{"rendered":"Ag\u00eancias elementares (<em>hekura<\/em> em Plotkin 1993)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the edge of my field of vision, tiny figures began to appear. [&#8230;] By now my senses had been severely altered. My hearing was especially acute; I felt as if I could gear everything in the <i>shabono <\/i>[maloca Yanomami]. My field of vision had been greatly expanded: it was as if I were looking at the world through a wide-angle lens. At the edge of my field of vision, the little figures began to dance. [&#8230;] In the distance, I heard a giant crocodile slowly slide off a riverbank into the water in search of a fat fish; in the hills to the east, several male cock-of-the-rock cried <i>Mewh, Mewh<\/i> to attract females; a huge harpy eagle sailed under the canopy in search of capychin monkeys, while a giant jaguar emitted a series of deep guttural grunts. To the north I heard the far-off waters of the Orinoco flowing toward the rapids that churned the river as it made its ay to the coast. To the south a soft rain gently pelted the canopy covering the mountains that form the border with Brazil. [&#8230;] Then my attention foused again on the images. The little figures at the edge of my field of vision multiplied in number as they danced faster and faster. I tried to get a better look, but it was like standing backward in front of a mirror and trying to turn around fast enough to see the back of your head: every time you look, the image is gone. I asked the shaman who the little men were. [&#8230;] \u201cThey are the <i>hekura<\/i>\u201d, he replied, \u201cthe spirits of the forest.\u201d (Plotkin 1993:265-6)<\/p>\n<p>PLOTKIN, Mark J. 1993. <i>Tales of a shaman&#8217;s apprentice: an ethnobotanist searches for new medicines in the Amazon rain forest<\/i>. New York: Viking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the edge of my field of vision, tiny figures began to appear. [&#8230;] By now my senses had been severely altered. My hearing was especially acute; I felt as if I could gear everything in the shabono [maloca Yanomami]. My field of vision had been greatly expanded: it was as if I were looking at the world through a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-citacao","tag-plotkin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/plotkin_capa.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laspa.slg.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}