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The Shaman

Author : John A. Grim
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806121062
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Shaman written by John A. Grim and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tribal peoples believe that the shaman experiences, absorbs, and communicates a special mode of power, sustaining and healing. This book discusses American Indian shamanic traditions, particularly those of the Woodland Ojibway, in terms drawn from the classical shamanism of Siberian peoples. Using a cultural-historical method, John A. Grim describes the spiritual formation of shamans, male and female, and elucidates the special religious experience that they transmit to their tribes. Writing as a historian of religion well acquainted with ethnological materials, Grim identifies four patterns in the shamanic experience: cosmology, tribal sanction, ritual reenactment, and trance experience. Relating those concepts to the Siberian and Ojibway experiences, he draws on mythology, sociology, anthropology, and psychology to paint a picture of shamanism that is both particularized and interpretative. As religious personalities, shamans are important today because of their singular ability to express symbolically the forces that animate the tribal cosmology. Often identifying themselves with primordial earth processes, shamans develop symbol systems drawn from the archetypal earth images that are vital to their psychic healing technique. This particular ability to resonate with the natural world is felt as an important need in our time. Those readers who identify with American Indians as they confront modern technological society will value this introduction to our native shamanic traditions and to the religious experience itself. The author's discussion of Ojibway practices is the most comprehensive short treatment available, written with a fine poetic feeling that reflects the literary expressiveness inherent in American Indian religion and thought.

Shamanism

Author : Mircea Eliade
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069126502X
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Shamanism written by Mircea Eliade and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperback Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade surveys the tradition through two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia—where shamanism was first observed—to North and South America, Indonesia, Tibet, China, and beyond. In this authoritative survey, Eliade illuminates the magico-religious life of societies that give primacy of place to the figure of the shaman—at once magician and medicine man, healer and miracle-doer, priest, mystic, and poet. Synthesizing the approaches of psychology, sociology, and ethnology, Shamanism remains the reference book of choice for those interested in this practice.

Shamanism [2 volumes]

Author : Mariko Namba Walter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576076466
Total Pages : 1088 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Shamanism [2 volumes] written by Mariko Namba Walter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to worldwide shamanism and shamanistic practices, emphasizing historical and current cultural adaptations. This two-volume reference is the first international survey of shamanistic beliefs from prehistory to the present day. In nearly 200 detailed, readable entries, leading ethnographers, psychologists, archaeologists, historians, and scholars of religion and folk literature explain the general principles of shamanism as well as the details of widely varied practices. What is it like to be a shaman? Entries describe, region by region, the traits, such as sicknesses and dreams, that mark a person as a shaman, as well as the training undertaken by initiates. They detail the costumes, music, rituals, artifacts, and drugs that shamans use to achieve altered states of consciousness, communicate with spirits, travel in the spirit world, and retrieve souls. Unlike most Western books on shamanism, which focus narrowly on the individual's experience of healing and trance, Shamanism also examines the function of shamanism in society from social, political, and historical perspectives and identifies the ancient, continuous thread that connects shamanistic beliefs and rituals across cultures and millennia.

The Early Greek Concept of the Soul

Author : Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691219354
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Early Greek Concept of the Soul written by Jan N. Bremmer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan Bremmer presents a provocative picture of the historical development of beliefs regarding the soul in ancient Greece. He argues that before Homer the Greeks distinguished between two types of soul, both identified with the individual: the free soul, which possessed no psychological attributes and was active only outside the body, as in dreams, swoons, and the afterlife; and the body soul, which endowed a person with life and consciousness. Gradually this concept of two kinds of souls was replaced by the idea of a single soul. In exploring Greek ideas of human souls as well as those of plants and animals, Bremmer illuminates an important stage in the genesis of the Greek mind.

The Archaeology of Shamanism

Author : Neil Price
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134527705
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Shamanism written by Neil Price and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely collection, Neil Price provides a general introduction to the archaeology of shamanism by bringing together recent archaeological thought on the subject. Blending theoretical discussion with detailed case studies, the issues addressed include shamanic material culture, responses to dying and the dead, shamanic soundscapes, the use of ritual architecture and shamanism in the context of other belief systems such as totemism. Following an intial orientation reviewing shamanism as an anthropological construct, the volume focuses on the Northern hemisphere with case studies from Greenland to Nepal, Siberia to Kazakhstan. The papers span a chronological range from Upper Palaeolithic to the present and explore such cross-cutting themes as gender and the body, identity, landscape, architecture, as well as shamanic interpretations of rock art and shamanism in the heritage and cultural identity of indigenous peoples. The volume also addresses the interpretation of shamanic beliefs in terms of cognitive neuroscience and the modern public perception of prehistoric shamanism.

Shamanism

Author : Andrei A. Znamenski
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415311922
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Shamanism written by Andrei A. Znamenski and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004-03-11 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mircea Eliade descibed shamanism as the primal religion of humanity, the 'archaic technique of ecstasy'. The books of best-selling author Carlos Castaneda made it part of popular culture. Since the 1960s shamanism has continued to attract the attention of scholars, artists, writers and the general public. The most intriguing aspect of this religion is the ability of shamans to enter into contact with spirits on behalf of their communities. The first eighteenth-century explorers of Siberia dubbed shamanism a blatant fraud. Later, academic observers stamped it as 'neurotic delusion'. In the 1960s shamans were recast as 'wounded healers', who sacrifice their lives for the spiritual well being of their communities. Many current writers and scholars treat shamanism as ancient wisdom that has much to teach us about true spirituality. This anthology tells the story of shamanism in Eurasia, North and South America, Africa and Australia. It brings together for the first time fifty-six articles and book excerpts by anthropologists, psychologists, religious scholars and historians, illustrating the variety of views on this subject.

Historical Dictionary of Shamanism

Author : Graham Harvey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442257989
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Shamanism written by Graham Harvey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Archaeology of Shamanism

Author : Neil S. Price
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415252546
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Shamanism written by Neil S. Price and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Australian Aboriginal content.

Popular Beliefs and Folklore Tradition in Siberia

Author : V. Diószegi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3112414543
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Popular Beliefs and Folklore Tradition in Siberia written by V. Diószegi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Popular Beliefs and Folklore Tradition in Siberia".

Art of Siberia

Author : Valentina Gorbatcheva
Publisher : Parkstone International
ISBN 13 : 1785257358
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Art of Siberia written by Valentina Gorbatcheva and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of Siberia is a fascinating subject, and the artifacts discovered in the hidden archives of the Russian Museum of Ethnography in St. Petersburg are nothing less than extraordinary. Artwork, day-to-day subjects and photos dating from the turn of the century all represent the testimonies of the Siberian people who refused to yield to the hegemony of a modern world.

Explore Shamanism

Author : Alby Stone
Publisher : Heart of Albion
ISBN 13 : 1872883680
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Explore Shamanism written by Alby Stone and published by Heart of Albion. This book was released on 2003 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Peoples of the Great North. Art and Civilisation of Siberia

Author : Valentina Gorbatcheva
Publisher : Parkstone International
ISBN 13 : 1639197567
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Peoples of the Great North. Art and Civilisation of Siberia written by Valentina Gorbatcheva and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2024-01-17 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents discovered recently in the hidden backrooms of St Petersburg’s Ethnological Museum have proved to be of sensational importance. The contents are published for the very first time in this work. Representing photos and descriptions of art and sculpture, of everyday utensils and everyday activities, all dating from the beginning of the twentieth century, these are the archives of ethnic groups in Siberia who for the most part have fougth tenaciously to maintain their historical traditions. The authors brilliantly convey their enthusiastic admiration for the peoples who have so successfully and for so long contended against both hostile environment and political dominance.

An Encyclopedia of Shamanism Volume 1

Author : Christina Pratt
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781404210400
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book An Encyclopedia of Shamanism Volume 1 written by Christina Pratt and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shamanism can be defined as the practice of initiated shamans who are distinguished by their mastery of a range of altered states of consciousness. Shamanism arises from the actions the shaman takes in non-ordinary reality and the results of those actions in ordinary reality. It is not a religion, yet it demands spiritual discipline and personal sacrifice from the mature shaman who seeks the highest stages of mystical development.

Singing the Past

Author : Karl Reichl
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801437366
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Singing the Past written by Karl Reichl and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oral epic poetry is still performed by Turkic singers in Central Asia. On trips to the region, Karl Reichl collected heroic poems from the Uzbek, Kazakh, and Karakalpak oral traditions. Through a close analysis of these Turkic works, he shows that they are typologically similar to heroic poetry in Old English, Old High German, and Old French and that they can offer scholars new insights into the oral background of these medieval texts.Reichl draws on his research in Central Asia to discuss questions regarding performance as well as the singers' training, role in society, and repertoire. He asserts that heroic poetry and epic are primarily concerned with the interpretation of the past in song: the courageous deeds of ancestors, the search for tribal and societal roots, and the definition and transmission of cultural values. Reichl finds that in these traditions the heroic epic is part of a generic system that includes historical and eulogistic poetry as well as heroic lays, a view that has diachronic implications for medieval poetry.Singing the Past reminds readers that because much medieval poetry was composed for oral recitation, both the Turkic and the medieval heroic poems must always be appreciated as poetry in performance, as sound listened to, as words spoken or sung.

Narratives and Journeys in Rock Art: A Reader

Author : George Nash
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784915610
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Narratives and Journeys in Rock Art: A Reader written by George Nash and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why publish a Reader? Today, it is relatively easy and convenient to switch on your computer and download an academic paper. However, as many scholars have experienced, historic references are difficult to access. Moreover, some are now lost and are merely references in later papers. This can be frustrating.

Among Herders of Inner Mongolia

Author : Christel Braae
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 877184497X
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book Among Herders of Inner Mongolia written by Christel Braae and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of a unique collection of Inner Mongolian artifacts at the National Museum of Denmark. They are described, analyzed and presented in a catalogue of more than 800 items, documenting the daily life of pastoral society in and around the tent, in the herding of the animals, in caravan trade and in hunting, crafts, sports and games, and in ritual life. Information about the objects was obtained during two expeditions to Inner Mongolia in the 1930s led by the Danish author Henning Haslund-Christensen, who had many years' experience of travel and expedition life in Mongolia. This is also a detailed account of the expeditions; of the routes, means and measures, as well as the worries and hopes of the participants; of their struggles with scientific aspirations; and of the conditions for collecting against the backdrop of the Chinese civil war and the Japanese occupation. The First and Second Danish Expeditions to Central Asia took place in 1936-1937 and 1938-1939 respectively. These expeditions were the sole foreign parties with access to the area at the time, and therefore their members were among the few observers of Inner Mongolian pastoral society at a time and place for which information was, and still is, scant and fragmented. Hence, the material objects and data obtained are of great scientific importance in the documentation of the life and material culture of Inner Mongolian herders in the 1930s - the main subject of the present book.

Shamanism in Siberia

Author : A.A. Znamenski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401702772
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Shamanism in Siberia written by A.A. Znamenski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes you to the "classical academy of shamanism", Siberian tribal spirituality that gave birth to the expression "shamanism." For the first time, in this volume Znamenski has rendered in readable English more than one hundred books and articles that describe all aspects of Siberian shamanism: ideology, ritual, mythology, spiritual pantheon, and paraphernalia. It will prove valuable to anthropologists, historians of religion, psychologists and practitioners of shamanism.