Archaeological approaches to shamanism : mind-body, nature, and culture / edited by Dragoș Gheorghiu, Emília Pásztor, Herman Bender and George Nash.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gheorghiu, Dragos, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Shamanistic.

Shamanism.

Archaeology.

Physical Description:

xi, 267 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

"This 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."--Back cover.

Contents:

Shamans and symbols / Mihály Hoppál

Rethinking the neuropsychological model: shamanism, prehistoric Eskimo art, and animist ontology / Feng Qu

Bear myths and rituals: the moon, women, stars and possible ancient links to Eurasia in North America / Herman E. Bender

Technoshamanism: a shamanic experience of pyrotechnologies / Dragoș Gheorghiu

Shamanism as a product of modernity: the anthropology of the ecstasy [MDMA] culture of the late 20th Century / George Nash

Study of the Dongshanzui prehistoric female figurines and an analysis of the shamanism background / Kaixi Liu

Mediating between earth and sky? "shamans" in the Late Neolithic of the Carpathian Basin? / Alexandra Anders

Nature-culture: à-propos du shamanisme protohistorique des Balkans / Michel Louis Séfériadès

Comments on bird symbolism of the Bronze Age Carpathian Basin and its possible relationship with shamanism / Emília Pásztor

Shamanism in the archaeology of nomadic Peoples of Eurasia in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages / Zaur Hasanov

Shamans of ancient Iranian Nomads: artifacts and Iconography / Sergey Yatsenko.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

1527500071

9781527500075

OCLC:

1002199270

Publisher Number:

99974511970