The archaeology of shamanism / edited by Neil S. Price.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Price, Neil S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shamanism.

Ethnoarchaeology.

Material culture.

Physical Description:

xii, 239 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.

Contents:

Archaeology of altered states : shamanism and material culture studies / Neil S. Price

Southern African shamanistic rock art in its social and cognitive contexts / J.D. Lewis-Williams

Rock art and the material culture of Siberian and Central Asian shamanism / Ekaterina Devlet

Shamans, heroes and ancestors in the bronze castings of western Siberia / Natalia Fedorova

Suns gods or shamans? : interpreting the 'solar-headed' petroglyphs of Central Asia / Andrzej Rozwadowski

Materiality of shamanism as a 'world-view' : praxis, artefacts and landscape / Peter Jordan

Medium of the message : shamanism as localised practice in the Nepal Himalayas / Damian Walter

Gendered peopling of North America : addressing the antiquity of systems of multiple genders / Sandra E. Hollimon

Shamanism and the iconography of Palaeo-Eskimo art / Patricia D. Sutherland

Social bonding and shamanism among Late Dorset groups in High Arctic Greenland / Hans Christian Gulløv and Martin Appelt

Special objects

special creatures : shamanistic imagery and the Aurignacian art of south-west Germany / Thomas A. Dowson and Martin Porr

Sounds of transformation : acoustics, monuments and ritual in the British Neolithic / Aaron Watson

Ideology of transformation : cremation rites and animal sacrifice in early Anglo-Saxon England / Howard Williams

Waking ancestor spirits : neo-shamanic engagements with archaeology / Robert J. Wallis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415252547

0415252555

OCLC:

46882784