The Archaeology of Shamanism
Author: Neil S. Price
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780415252546
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Author: Neil S. Price
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780415252546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo Australian Aboriginal content.
Author: Neil S. Price
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780415252553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo Australian Aboriginal content.
Author: James L. Pearson
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780759101562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of archaeological evidence for Shamanism in North America and how it links to the archaeology of the mind. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Author: Timothy Insoll
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-10-27
Total Pages: 1135
ISBN-13: 019923244X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive overview, by period and region, of the archaeology of ritual and religion. The coverage is global, and extends from the earliest prehistory to modern times. Written by over sixty renowned specialists, the Handbook presents the very best in current scholarship, and will also stimulate further research.
Author: William F. Romain
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2009-10-16
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0759119074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShamans of the Lost World bridges the gap between recent work in the cognitive sciences and some of humankind's oldest religious expressions. In this detailed look at the prehistoric shamanism of the Ohio Hopewell, Romain uses cognitive science, archaeology, and ethnology to propose that the shamanic worldview results from psychological mechanisms that have a basis in our cognitive evolutionary development. The discussions in this volume of the most current theories concerning how early peoples came to believe in spirits and gods, as well as how those theories help account for what we find in the archaeological record of the Hopewell, are of interest to archaeologists and cognitive scientists alike.
Author: Graham Harvey
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015-12-15
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 1442257989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA remarkable array of people have been called shamans, while the phenomena identified as shamanism continues to proliferate. This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Shamanism contains with examples from antiquity up to today, and from Siberia (where the term “shaman” originated) to Amazonia, South Africa, Chicago and many other places. Many claims about shamans and shamanism are contentious and all are worthy of discussion. In the most widespread understandings, terms seem to refer particularly to people who alter states of consciousness or enter trances in order to seek knowledge and help from powerful other-than-human persons, perhaps “spirits”. But this says only a little about the artists, community leaders, spiritual healers or hucksters, travelers in alternative realities and so on to which the label “shaman” has been applied. This second edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and extensive bibliography. The dictionary contains over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on individuals, groups, practices and cultures that have been called “shamanic”. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Shamanism.
Author: Dragoş Gheorghiu
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2018-04-18
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1527509559
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis long awaited book discusses both ancient and modern shamanism, demonstrating its longevity and spatial distribution. The book is divided into eleven thought-provoking chapters that are organised into three sections: mind-body, nature, and culture. It discusses the clear associations with this sometimes little-understood ritualised practice, and asks what shamanism is and if tangible evidence can be extracted from a largely fragmentary archaeological record. The book offers a novel portrayal of the material culture of shamanism by collating carefully selected studies by specialists from three different continents, promoting a series of new perspectives on this idiosyncratic and sometimes intangible phenomenon.
Author: Michael Ripinsky-Naxon
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1993-05-04
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780791413869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRipinsky-Naxon explores the core and essence of shamanism by looking at its ritual, mythology, symbolism, and the dynamics of its cultural process. In dealing with the basic elements of shamanism, the author discusses the shamanistic experience and enlightenment, the inner personal crisis, and the many aspects entailed in the role of the shaman.
Author: Dragos Gheorghiu
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781785709579
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Shamanism' is a term with specific anthropological roots, but which is used more generally to cover a set of interactions between a practitioner or 'shaman' and a spiritual or religious realm beyond the reach of most members of the community. It has often been considered from an anthropological viewpoint, but this book gathers the most recent studies on a subject which has not been comprehensively studied by archaeologists. By putting together experts from two continents who have studied the phenomenon of shamanism, Lands of the Shamans through carefully selected case studies uses the archaeological evidence to construct the shamans' worldview, landscape and cosmology. Recent interdisciplinary studies support the idea of the existence of shamanistic representations as long ago as the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic, but at the same time, do not follow developments during the history of humankind. As ethnographic evidence shows, shamanistic activity represents a complex phenomenon that is extremely diversified, its spiritual activity possessing a large variety of expressions in the material culture. In other words, shamanism could be defined as a series of differing spiritual world views which model the material culture and the landscape. Throughout the archaeological record of all prehistoric and historic periods, there is a series of visual representations and objects and landscape alterations that could be ascribed to these differing world views, many thought to represent shamanistic cognition and activity. The shaman's landscape reveals itself to the world as one of multifaceted spiritual and material activity. Consequently, this first book dedicated completely to the shamanistic landscape presents in fresh perspective the landscapes of the lower and upper worlds as well as their phenomenological experience. Case studies come from Europe, North America and Asia.
Author: Merete Demant Jakobsen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781571819949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShamanism has always been of great interest to anthropologists. More recently it has been discovered by westerners, especially New Age followers. This book breaks new ground byexamining pristine shamanism in Greenland, among people contacted late by Western missionaries and settlers. On the basis of material only available in Danish, and presented herein English for the first time, the author questions Mircea Eliade's well-known definition of the shaman as the master of ecstasy and suggests that his role has to be seen as that of a master of spirits. The ambivalent nature of the shaman and the spirit world in the tough Arctic environment is then contrasted with the more benign attitude to shamanism in the New Age movement. After presenting descriptions of their organizations and accounts by participants, the author critically analyses the role of neo-shamanic courses and concludes that it is doubtful to consider what isoffered as shamanism.