Die Zenú der kolumbianischen Karibikküste. Religions- und Weltbildkonzepte
(Münchener Amerikanistik Beiträge Band 32)
München: Akademischer Verlag 1997
473 pp., DM 78,-; ISBN 3-932965-03-5
The Zenú of the Caribbean Coast of Colombia. Concepts of religion and worldview
Although numbering around 50 000 people, the Zenú have been "hushed up", or have not been acknowledged in anthropology, but were regarded as "Campesinos" instead. One result of this fieldwork is the insight that even after 450 years of "acculturation" basic cosmological and religious concepts of the Zenú are Indian heritage. Drexler"s method is "multivocal" as he includes the presentation of Zenú Indians by themselves, and the author"s own (etic) anthropological interpretations are clearly discernible, making the text transparent.
Following introductory chapters (method, approach, geographical environment, their ethnohistory, demography, basic components of Zenú culture) Drexler systematically describes their belief (creencias) and thinking (pensamiento). These chapters deal with their cosmology (geographical cosmology, cosmology and illness, further actions of analogy, specialists of traditional medicine), shamanic aspects, saints, death cult, the "structure of sacral narrative", and "living saints".
Keywords: Zenú, emic, etic, dialogic anthropology, multivocality, acculturation, Campesinos, religion of Zenú, cosmology, shamanism, traditional medicine, medicine, saints, death cult
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