Tricksters And Trancers


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Tricksters And Trancers


Tricksters And Trancers
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Author : Mathias Georg Guenther
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1999

Tricksters And Trancers written by Mathias Georg Guenther and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Religion categories.


.."". a first-rate piece of scholarship... an invaluable summary and commentary on the multilingual literature on [Bushman] people."" -- Choice The trickster and trance dancer are the guides through Bushman (or San) religion, a world of ambiguity and contradiction, and of enchantment. The two figures, who in Bushman belief are symbolically equivalent and mystically linked, embody these antistructural traits.



Tricksters And Trancers


Tricksters And Trancers
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Author : Mathias Guenther
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1999-11-22

Tricksters And Trancers written by Mathias Guenther and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-11-22 with History categories.


" . . . a first-rate piece of scholarship . . . an invaluable summary and commentary on the multilingual literature on [Bushman] people." —Choice The trickster and trance dancer are the guides through Bushman (or San) religion, a world of ambiguity and contradiction, and of enchantment. The two figures, who in Bushman belief are symbolically equivalent and mystically linked, embody these antistructural traits.



The Trickster Brain


The Trickster Brain
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Author : David Williams
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2012-05-29

The Trickster Brain written by David Williams and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-29 with Social Science categories.


Until recently, scientific and literary cultures have existed side-by-side but most often in parallel universes, without connection. The Trickster Brain: Neuroscience, Evolution, and Nature by David Williams addresses the premise that humans are a biological species stemming from the long process of evolution, and that we do exhibit a universal human nature, given to us through our genes. From this perspective, literature is shown to be a product of our biological selves. By exploring central ideas in neuroscience, evolutionary biology, linguistics, music, philosophy, ethics, religion, and history, Williams shows that it is the circuitry of the brain’s hard-wired dispositions that continually create similar tales around the world: “archetypal” stories reflecting ancient tensions that arose from our evolutionary past and the very construction of our brains. The book asserts that to truly understand literature, one must look at the biological creature creating it. By using the lens of science to examine literature, we can see how stories reveal universal aspects of the biological mind. The Trickster character is particularly instructive as an archetypal character who embodies a raft of human traits and concerns, for Trickster is often god, devil, musical, sexual, silver tongued, animal, and human at once, treading upon the moral dictates of culture. Williams brings together science and the humanities, demonstrating a critical way of approaching literature that incorporates scientific thought.



Bushman Letters


Bushman Letters
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Author : Michael Wessels
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2010-04-01

Bushman Letters written by Michael Wessels and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-01 with History categories.


The Bleek and Lloyd Collection consists of the notebooks in which William Bleek and Lucy Lloyd transcribed and translated the narratives, cultural information and personal histories told to them in the 1870s by a number of /Xam informants. It represents a rare and rich record of an indigenous language and culture that no longer exists, and has exerted a fascination for anthropologists and poets alike. Yet how does one begin reading texts that are at once so compromised and so unique? Bushman Letters is an important book for it examines not only the /Xam archive, but also the critical tradition that has grown up around it and the hermeneutic principles that inform that tradition. Wessels critiques these principles and offers alternative modes of reading. He shows the problems with the approaches employed by previous critics and, in the course of his own detailed and poetic readings of a number of narratives, suggests what their interpretations have left out. The book must be described as metacritical: it is criticism about the critical tradition that has grown up around the /Xam archive and in the fields of folklore and mythology more widely. Bushman Letters addresses a curiously neglected area in the burgeoning literature on the Bleek and Lloyd Collection: the texts themselves. In doing so, the book makes a substantial contribution to the study of oral narratives in general and to the theoretical discourse that informs such studies.



Visionary Animal


Visionary Animal
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Author : Renaud Ego
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2019-01-01

Visionary Animal written by Renaud Ego and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-01 with Social Science categories.


An illustrated collection that takes stock of current knowledge and proposes a new way of reading indigenous art For thousands of years, nomadic hunter-gatherers assigned a fundamental role to the visualization of the animals who shared their lives. Some, such as the Cape eland, the largest of antelopes, were the object of a fascinated gaze, as though the graceful markings and shapes of their bodies were the key to secret knowledge safeguarded by the animals’ unsettling silence. Renaud Ego posits that the artists sought to steal the animals’ secret through an act of rendering visible a vitality that remained hidden beneath appearances. In this process, the San themselves became the visionary animal who, possessing the gift of making pictures, would acquire far-seeing powers. Thanks to the singular effectiveness of their visual art, they could make intellectual contact with the world in order better to think and,ultimately, to act. They gained access to the full dimension of their human condition through painting scenes that functioned like visual contracts with spiritual and ancestral powers. Their art is an act that seeks to preserve the wholeness of existence through a respect for the relationships linking all beings, both real and imaginary,who partake of it. The fundamentally ecological dimension of this message confers on San art its universality and contemporary relevance.Visionary Animal is a translation of L’Animal voyant, published in France in 2015. This rich collection of essays is beautifully illustrated with the author’s photographs of rock art from across southern Africa.



Trickster Theatre


Trickster Theatre
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Author : Jesse Weaver Shipley
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2015-06-22

Trickster Theatre written by Jesse Weaver Shipley and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-22 with Social Science categories.


Trickster Theatre traces the changing social significance of national theatre in Ghana from its rise as an idealistic state project from the time of independence to its reinvention in recent electronic, market-oriented genres. Jesse Weaver Shipley presents portraits of many key figures in Ghanaian theatre and examines how Akan trickster tales were adapted as the basis of a modern national theatre. This performance style tied Accra's evolving urban identity to rural origins and to Pan-African liberation politics. Contradictions emerge, however, when the ideal Ghanaian citizen is a mythic hustler who stands at the crossroads between personal desires and collective obligations. Shipley examines the interplay between on-stage action and off-stage events to show how trickster theatre shapes an evolving urban world.



Future Primal


Future Primal
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Author : Louis G. Herman
language : en
Publisher: New World Library
Release Date : 2013

Future Primal written by Louis G. Herman and has been published by New World Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Nature categories.


""To address global political unrest and ecological collapse, political science professor Herman presents ways to incorporate the wisdom of the hunter-gatherer culture of the San Bushmen of southern Africa into modern Western culture"--



Human Animal Relationships In San And Hunter Gatherer Cosmology Volume I


Human Animal Relationships In San And Hunter Gatherer Cosmology Volume I
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Author : Mathias Guenther
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-08-21

Human Animal Relationships In San And Hunter Gatherer Cosmology Volume I written by Mathias Guenther and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-21 with Social Science categories.


Exploring a hitherto unexamined aspect of San cosmology, Mathias Guenther’s two volumes on human-animal relations in San cosmology link “new Animism” with Khoisan Studies, providing valuable insights for Khoisan Studies and San culture, but also for anthropological theory, relational ontology, folklorists, historians, literary critics and art historians. In Volume I, therianthropes and transformations, two manifestations of ontological mutability that are conceptually and phenomenologically linked, are contextualized in broader San myth. Guenther explores the pervasiveness of human-animal hybridity and transformation in San expressive culture (myth, stories and storytelling, ludic dancing and art, ancestral rock art and contemporary easel art), ritual (trance dance curing, female and male rites of passage) and hunting. Transformation is shown to be experienced by humans, particularly via rituals and dancing that evoke animal identity mergers, but also by hunters who may engage with their prey animals in terms of sympathy and inter-subjectivity, particularly through the use of “hunting medicines.”



Encyclopedia Of Religion And Nature


Encyclopedia Of Religion And Nature
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Author : Bron Taylor
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2005-01-01

Encyclopedia Of Religion And Nature written by Bron Taylor and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with Religion categories.


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Anthropology And The Bushman


Anthropology And The Bushman
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Author : Alan Barnard
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-05-18

Anthropology And The Bushman written by Alan Barnard and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-18 with Social Science categories.


The Bushman' is a perennial but changing image. The transformation of that image is important. It symbolizes the perception of Bushman or San society, of the ideas and values of ethnographers who have worked with Bushman peoples, and those of other anthropologists who use this work. Anthropology and the Bushman covers early travellers and settlers, classic nineteenth and twentieth-century ethnographers, North American and Japanese ecological traditions, the approaches of African ethnographers, and recent work on advocacy and social development. It reveals the impact of Bushman studies on anthropology and on the public. The book highlights how Bushman or San ethnography has contributed to anthropological controversy, for example in the debates on the degree of incorporation of San society within the wider political economy, and on the validity of the case for 'indigenous rights' as a special kind of human rights. Examining the changing image of the Bushman, Barnard provides a new contribution to an established anthropology debate.