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- Wedel, Johan, 1962
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Religious Healing in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua
- 2008
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Ingår i: 33th Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) conference, San Andres, Colombia, May 26-30, 2008.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper inquires into the various forms of healing performed today among the Miskitu people of the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. The Miskitu have a long history of relations with outsiders and with people of African origin. Miskitu cosmology and its ideas about illness and healing is today a mixture of indigenous, Afro-Caribbean, and Christian beliefs. Local healers constantly pick up new healing methods and ideas from other religious traditions in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. The paper discusses how Miskitu healers, known as curanderos, sukias, and profetas, heal by relating sickness and suffering to a world of spirits which also makes reference to the plural cultural antecedences of contemporary Miskitu worldview.
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- Cornell, Per, 1962, et al.
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Ett möte mellan Sverige och Nicaragua
- 2001
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Ingår i: Fornvännen. - 0015-7813 .- 1404-9430. ; 96, s. 169-176
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Wedel, Johan, 1962
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Sorcery and Violence in Eastern Nicaragua
- 2010
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Ingår i: 35th Caribbean Studies Association Conference, May 24-28, St. Peters, Barbados.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Wedel, Johan, 1962
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Spirit possession among the Miskitu of Nicaragua
- 2008
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Ingår i: Paper for the 10th EASA conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 26-29, 2008..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The Miskitu people of Eastern Nicaragua are occasionally troubled by a spectacular illness called grisi siknis or "crazy sickness," said to be caused by spirits. This paper inquires into how Miskitu healers ritually transform the experience of the afflicted through an idiom of the spirit world.
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- Salas, Osvaldo, 1953
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La Economía de Nicaragua
- 1989
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Ingår i: Anales. Iberoamerikanska Institutet, GU. ; 1, s. 179-194
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Wedel, Johan, 1962
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Divination and Customary Justice on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua
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Ingår i: Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, 5-9 June, St. Croix Virgin Islands (US).
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper focuses on divination and customary justice on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. By using a case study among the Miskitu people as example, it looks at how supposed witches are detected and how innocence or guilt is established in witchcraft cases. It is shown that divination plays an important role in the customary judicial process, as divination creates the conditions for the settling of communal disputes. It is further shown that communication with the spirit world is essential in the divinatory process. Overall, divination has an important role to play when bridging the gap between state legality and local norms and practices.
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