symbolic violence
Piaroa Envy, Revenge, and Nonviolence [anthology chapter review]
Alexander Mansutti RodrÃguez describes some dramatic episodes of shamanistic violence in an article published last year in a book about lowland South America. One episode he describes, for example, concerns a very powerful Piaroa shaman, called a tjujaturuwa (lord of the people), who was preoccupied with defending himself from the attacks of potentially jealous rivals. […]