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Volume 13, Issue 2 (2015-2016) Special Topics: The Alchemical Person
We are pleased to publish this issue of the journal featuring a special topic on Indigenous Alchemy. This special topic is drawn from the panel The Alchemical Person, which took place at IX Sesquiannual Conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, University Of Gothenburg, Sweden in June 2014. Also included in this issue are film and book reviews.Special Topics
INTRODUCTION
Elizabeth Rahman and Juan Alvaro Echeverri
Sonic Substances and Silent Sounds: an Auditory Anthropology of Ritual Songs
Bernd Brabec de Mori
Hydrocentric Infants and their Alchemic Sedimentation: Artfully Binding the Bodily Soul among Xié River Dwellers of Northwestern Amazonia
Elizabeth Rahman
Hãwäg and b’atìb: The Balance between Health and Disease among the Hupd’äh in the Upper Rio Negro Region, Brazil
Renato Athias
Finding the Taste of Knowledge: The Orphan in Indigenous Epistemologies
Giovanna Micarelli
Substances and Persons: on the Culinary Space of the People of the Centre
Juan Alvaro Echeverri
A Diet of Fat Connecting Humans and Nonhumans (in the Bolivian Foothills between the Andes and Amazonia)
Francis Ferrié
Healing in the Hospital: the Caring Sensorium and the Containment of Yanomami Bodies
Johanna Gonçalves Martin
Consuming the Nation-State: Reflections on Makushi Understandings of the Person in a Transnational Context
Lucas Carneiro de Carvalho
Ukuo and Täbotü between the Piaroa of the Matavén Rainforest in the Colombian Orinoquia
Nelsa De la Hoz
The Life Elixir of Amazonian Societies in a Multi-Sensory Museum Exhibition
Sonia Duin and Renzo S. Duin
Reviews
Dueños del Agua: Conflicto y colaboración sobre los rios
Barbara M. Arisi
