Cosmos of the Shuar

From my understanding, the Shuar people were mainly animists and had shamans before Judeo-Christian missionaries showed up in the 1900s. The shamans of this culture believed only in the "Middle World" spirits (Cave and Cosmos, Harner, p.63). This means that they tend to be strong on bewitching and sorcery. A decent amount of these once dominant cosmos have since dwindled, due to missionaries who focused on the Shuar. These people came in and began teaching children, and adults, spanish, opened up a trade with the Shuar, and converted many of them into Christians. However, according to Harner's Cave and Cosmos, the Shuar still have a spiritual dependence on a spirit of the element of water, due to its underlying source of sheer power. Although so many cultures around the world have lost many of their traditional ways, including the Shuar, these people still hold on to many of the key values that has kept them independent in their hundreds of years of existence.