Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

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

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Additional Authors

• Gheorghiu, Dragos.
• Pásztor, Emília.
• Bender, Herman.
• Nash, George.

Description

xi, 267 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm

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.

Subject

• Art, Shamanistic
• Shamanism
• Archaeology
• Material culture

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• In English with one contribution in French with English abstract.

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.

Call Number

JFD 18-708

ISBN

• 1527500071
• 9781527500075

OCLC

1002199270

Title

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

Publisher

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

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

In English with one contribution in French with English abstract.

Added Author

Gheorghiu, Dragos.

Pásztor, Emília.

Bender, Herman.

Nash, George.

Research Call Number

JFD 18-708