The owner of God

In November I'm going to a conference in Copenhagen, named Amerindian Cosmologies: Identity and Power. I am going to give a paper about the Diosarotu - the owner of God. Its the same that I called my masters thesis, but after one more year of fieldwork, I have a lot more date on that topic. Here is my very short abstract

"During my fieldwork among the Warao I found a new form of shamanism which could be translated as “the owner of God”. Diosarout is a mix of words from two different language; The Spanish word “Dios”, which means God, and the Warao word “arotu”, which means owner, or manipulator. This form of shamanism has some similarities with the other forms of shamanism, like Hoarotu, Wisiarout and the Bahanarotu. All these words have the suffix – arotu in the end. If we accept that –arotu is a prefix that implicates owner, Diosarotu means owner of God. In my paper I want to explore the possibility of understanding shamanism as a type of knowledge, and how this knowledge assimilates aspects of the missionary teachings, trying to make themselves as powerful, or even more powerful than the missionaries."

I figure this will be one of the sub themes in my thesis - the material culture of shamanism?? Words as things??

Writing up is like running up and down street and back allies in a big city you have never visited, and that it seem you will never realy get a hang of.