Table of Contents
Introduction
Generalities of Kamëntšá Culture
A Philosophical Approach to Kamëntšá Culture
Chapter 1 – Time in Kamëntšá Culture
Two Conceptions of Time
Time as History
- Sibundoy at the Time of the Early Spanish Conquistadors
- Carlos Tamabioy’s Legacy in Land Ownership
- Capuchin Missionaries and the Division of Land in the Sibundoy
Valley
Time as Primary Experience
- Storytelling as Constituted Symbol
- Scholarship on Storytelling as Constituted Symbol
- Storytelling as Constituting Symbol
Conclusion
Chapter 2 – Beauty in Kamëntšá Culture
Bëtskanté as Constituted Symbol
From Bëtsknaté to Clestrinӱë
Bëtsknaté as a Constituting Symbol: An Experience of
Dancing
The Philosophical Significance of Kamëntšá Dancing
Conclusion
Chapter 3 – Spirit in Kamëntšá Culture
Native Doctors and Rituals of Healing: The Constituted Nature
of Rituals
Scholarly Descriptions of Yajé
Yajé ceremonies in Sibundoy: The Constituting Aspects of
Yajé
Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
Juan Alejandro Chindoy Chindoy is Lecturer in Moral and Political
Philosophy at Caldas University, Manizales, Colombia and Lecturer
in Philosophy of Law and Hermeneutics at Universidad Católica Luis
Amigó, Manizales, Colombia.
Reviews
With a decidedly didactic tone and in dialogue with the American
philosophical tradition, Chindoy articulates communal history and
personal experience to introduce the Western reader to Time,
Beauty, and Spirit as living forces in the Kam�nts� culture. It is
in the transformative effects of its reading that this concise
volume becomes, in the author's words, a beautiful and meaningful
conversation. --Enrique Alejandro Basabe, lecturer in foreign
languages, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa
