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Wayward Shamans

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Author : Silvia Tomášková
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2013-05-03

Wayward Shamans written by Silvia Tomášková and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-03 with Social Science categories.

Wayward Shamans tells the story of an idea that humanity’s first expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, the work follows the trajectory of European knowledge about the continent’s eastern frontier. The ethnographic record left by German natural historians engaged in the Russian colonial expansion project in the 18th century includes a range of shamanic practitioners, varied by gender and age. Later accounts by exiled Russian revolutionaries noted transgendered shamans. This variation vanished, however, in the translation of shamanism into archaeology theory, where a male sorcerer emerged as the key agent of prehistoric art. More recent efforts to provide a universal shamanic explanation for rock art via South Africa and neurobiology likewise gloss over historical evidence of diversity. By contrast this book argues for recognizing indeterminacy in the categories we use, and reopening them by recalling their complex history.

Wayward Shamans

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Author : Silvia Tom‡_kov‡
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2013-05-03

Wayward Shamans written by Silvia Tom‡_kov‡ and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-03 with Social Science categories.

Wayward Shamans tells the story of an idea that humanityÕs first expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, the work follows the trajectory of European knowledge about the continentÕs eastern frontier. The ethnographic record left by German natural historians engaged in the Russian colonial expansion project in the 18th century includes a range of shamanic practitioners, varied by gender and age. Later accounts by exiled Russian revolutionaries noted transgendered shamans. This variation vanished, however, in the translation of shamanism into archaeology theory, where a male sorcerer emerged as the key agent of prehistoric art. More recent efforts to provide a universal shamanic explanation for rock art via South Africa and neurobiology likewise gloss over historical evidence of diversity. By contrast this book argues for recognizing indeterminacy in the categories we use, and reopening them by recalling their complex history.

Cmj New Music Report

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002-07-22

Cmj New Music Report written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-22 with categories.

CMJ New Music Report is the primary source for exclusive charts of non-commercial and college radio airplay and independent and trend-forward retail sales. CMJ's trade publication, compiles playlists for college and non-commercial stations; often a prelude to larger success.

Historical Dictionary Of Shamanism

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Author : Graham Harvey
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2015-12-15

Historical Dictionary Of Shamanism written by Graham Harvey and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-15 with Religion categories.

A 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.

Cmj New Music Report

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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002-07-22

Cmj New Music Report written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-22 with categories.

The Life Cycle Of Russian Things

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Author : Matthew P. Romaniello
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-09-09

The Life Cycle Of Russian Things written by Matthew P. Romaniello and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-09 with History categories.

The Life Cycle of Russian Things re-orients commodity studies using interdisciplinary and comparative methods to foreground unique Russian and Soviet materials as varied as apothecary wares, isinglass, limestone and tanks. It also transforms modernist and Western interpretations of the material by emphasizing the commonalities of the Russian experience. Expert contributors from across the United States, Canada, Britain, and Germany come together to situate Russian material culture studies at an interdisciplinary crossroads. Drawing upon theory from anthropology, history, and literary and museum studies, the volume presents a complex narrative, not only in terms of material consumption but also in terms of production and the secondary life of inheritance, preservation, or even destruction. In doing so, the book reconceptualises material culture as a lived experience of sensory interaction. The Life Cycle of Russian Things sheds new light on economic history and consumption studies by reflecting the diversity of Russia's experiences over the last 400 years.

An Anthropological Study Of Spirits

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Author : Christine S. VanPool
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-05-28

An Anthropological Study Of Spirits written by Christine S. VanPool and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-28 with Religion categories.

This book discusses the cultural importance of spirits, what spirits want, and how humans interact with them, using examples from around the world and through time. Examples range from the vengeful spirits of the Zulu that cast lightning bolts from clear skies to punish wrongdoers, to the benevolent Puebloan Kachina that encourage prosperity, safety, and rain in the arid American Southwest. The case studies illustrate how humans seek to cooperate (or counteract) spirits to heal the physical and spiritual ailments of their people, to divine the truth, or to gain resources. Building from their cross-cultural analyses, the authors further discuss how our physiology and psychology impact our interaction with the spirits. Readers will come away with an appreciation of the beauty and power of the spirits that continue to shape the lives of people around the world.

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