TY - BOOK AU - Idoyaga Molina,Anatilde TI - The Representation of the Holy Spirit among the Pilaga of Central Chaco PY - 2003///. N1 - 3 N2 -   The Pilaga are among the indigenous populations of the Chaco in Argentina. Their cosmogony brings into play a great diversity of spiritual entities that sustain relationships of dependency and/or conflict among themselves and with humans. Far from implying a conversion to Western values, the introduction of a Pentecostal movement in the 1940s brought about the appropriation of the figure of the Holy Spirit and its fusing into a symbolical universe crisscrossed by ancestral and foreign dimensions. In particular, the author shows how some chamans also resort to « conversion » as a way of affirming a new power UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-tiers-monde-2003-1-page-47?lang=en ER -