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9780415252553

The Archaeology of Shamanism

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415252553

  • ISBN10:

    0415252555

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2001-12-07
  • Publisher: Routledge

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In this timely collection, Neil Price brings together recent archaeological thought on shamanism. Issues addressed include shamanic material culture, responses to dying and the dead, shamanism in the context of other belief systems such as totemism, shamanic soundscapes, and the use of ritual architecture. With case studies from the arctic Greenland to Africa and from Europe to Asia this work covers the Palaeolithic to the present day.

Table of Contents

List of figures
vii
List of contributors
ix
Acknowledgements xi
PART ONE The archaeology of shamanism: Cognition, cosmology and world-view
An Archaeology of Altered States: Shamanism and Material Culture Studies
3(14)
Neil S. Price
Southern African shamanistic rock art in its social and cognitive contexts
17(26)
J.D. Lewis-Williams
PART TWO Siberia and Central Asia: The `cradle of shamanism'
Rock art and the material culture of Siberian and Central Asian shamanism
43(13)
Ekaterina Devlet
Shamans, heroes and ancestors in the bronze castings of western Siberia
56(9)
Natalia Fedorova
Sun gods or shamans? Interpreting the `solar-headed' petroglyphs of Central Asia
65(22)
Andrzej Rozwadowski
The materiality of shamanism as a `world-view': Praxis, artefacts and landscape
87(18)
Peter Jordan
The medium of the message: Shamanism as localised practice in the Nepal Himalayas
105(18)
Damian Walter
PART THREE North America and the North Atlantic
The gendered peopling of North America: Addressing the antiquity of systems of multiple genders
123(12)
Sandra E. Hollimon
Shamanism and the iconography of Palaeo-Eskimo art
135(11)
Patricia D. Sutherland
Social bonding and shamanism among Late Dorset groups in High Arctic Greenland
146(19)
Hans Christian Gullov
Martin Appelt
PART FOUR Northern Europe
Special Objects--special creatures: Shamanistic imagery and the Aurignacian art of south-west Germany
165(13)
Thomas A. Dowson
Martin Porr
The Sounds of transformation: Acoustics, monuments and ritual in the British Neolithic
178(15)
Aaron Watson
An Ideology of transformation: Cremation rites and animal sacrifice in early Anglo-Saxon England
193(20)
Howard Williams
Waking ancestor spirits: Neo-shamanic engagements with archaeology
213(18)
Robert J. Wallis
Index 231

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