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Author : Jean Clottes
Publisher : Grupo Planeta (GBS)
ISBN 13 : 9788434466449
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (664 download)
Download or read book Los chamanes de la prehistoria written by Jean Clottes and published by Grupo Planeta (GBS). This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Sánchez Gil
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Chamanes y drogas en la Prehistoria written by David Sánchez Gil and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Con este libro se busca ahondar, precisar y ofrecer un esquema sinóptico al asunto del empleo de los enteógenos en las últimas etapas de la Prehistoria: el Neolítico, la Edad de los metales y la Prehistoria reciente. Además, a través del contraste y exposición de datos arqueo botánicos, se pretende llegar a las semejanzas y diferencias en el consumo de psicoactivos en la Prehistoria tardía europea, cribando el análisis en la demarcación geográfica. Por último, se da voz, de igual modo, a la visión antropológica del asunto, incidiendo en la relación del ser humano con las distintas deidades vinculadas al consumo de psicoactivos, estableciendo un recorrido que puede arrojar luz sobre la situación actual en dicha materia.
Author : Alfonso J. Aparicio Mena
Publisher : Bubok
ISBN 13 : 8468633933
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (686 download)
Download or read book THE LIMPIA IN THE MESOAMERICAN ETHNOMEDICINES written by Alfonso J. Aparicio Mena and published by Bubok. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A limpia (?cleansing?, in the Spanish language) is a physical?symbolic method, used in the Mesoamerican traditional medical practices, to reach a new balance. The verb «to clean» means «make something or someone free of dirt, mess or defects». When what is removed is visible, the result of ?cleaning? is an objective fact; when, however, the alteration, the defect, the block inside the person is symbolic (?energetic?), the limpia becomes an act of faith, a physical ritual that is a step away from the sacred or the traditional. In fact, according to Mesoamerican natives, the human being is built up also by ?something more? than the body: this is a kind of vital energy that is an integral part of all creatures, and of course the human being. Not specific of Mesoamerican worldview, the ?spiritual vibration? is communicated, with other discursive images, by other ethnic groups coming from all around the world. Mesoamerican people, thus, think that health problems have not only corporal or psychological causes and relations but ?energetic? too. The limpia makes the person connected with itself and with its own environment (biological, community and of cultural beliefs); its purpose is to re?harmonize the person with that environment, removing and expelling from it the elements (physical, psychic, social and ?symbolic?) causing its sickness or influencing it.
Author : Oscar Moro Abadía
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000339734
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Ontologies of Rock Art written by Oscar Moro Abadía and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-03 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontologies of Rock Art is the first publication to explore a wide range of ontological approaches to rock art interpretation, constituting the basis for groundbreaking studies on Indigenous knowledges, relational metaphysics, and rock imageries. The book contributes to the growing body of research on the ontology of images by focusing on five main topics: ontology as a theoretical framework; the development of new concepts and methods for an ontological approach to rock art; the examination of the relationships between ontology, images, and Indigenous knowledges; the development of relational models for the analysis of rock images; and the impact of ontological approaches on different rock art traditions across the world. Generating new avenues of research in ontological theory, political ontology, and rock art research, this collection will be relevant to archaeologists, anthropologists, and philosophers. In the context of an increasing interest in Indigenous ontologies, the volume will also be of interest to scholars in Indigenous studies. Chapter 14 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9780429321863/ontologies-rock-art-oscar-moro-abad%C3%ADa-martin-porr?context=ubx&refId=3766b051-4754-4339-925c-2a262a505074
Author : Jean Clottes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Shamans of Prehistory written by Jean Clottes and published by . This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The universality of shamanistic power and practice among today's hunter-gatherers - along with the similarity of rock art found in varied sites around the world - has led Jean Clottes and David Lewis-Williams to suggest in this new book that the great art of paleolithic caves can be best understood through the lens of shamanism. Indeed, this is not a monograph on a particular site, but a general discussion of the art of painted caves and their shamanistic meaning. Through the authors' revealing words and the abundant full-color illustrations, we follow shamans into their trance states, and we watch as they carefully paint and engrave on rock surfaces the shapes of animals whose power they seek. As we learn how drawings and rituals were likely modes of shamanistic contact, we understand best the actions, accomplishments, and traces left behind by prehistoric shamans.
Author : Abrams
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810927711
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (277 download)
Download or read book Shamans of Prehistory written by Abrams and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The universality of shamanistic power and practice among today's hunter-gatherers - along with the similarity of rock art found in varied sites around the world - has led Jean Clottes and David Lewis-Williams to suggest in this new book that the great art of paleolithic caves can be best understood through the lens of shamanism. Indeed, this is not a monograph on a particular site, but a general discussion of the art of painted caves and their shamanistic meaning. Through the authors' revealing words and the abundant full-color illustrations, we follow shamans into their trance states, and we watch as they carefully paint and engrave on rock surfaces the shapes of animals whose power they seek. As we learn how drawings and rituals were likely modes of shamanistic contact, we understand best the actions, accomplishments, and traces left behind by prehistoric shamans.
Author : Ness Bosch
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803412135
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Sacred Bones, Magic Bones written by Ness Bosch and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bones have many stories to tell, so many that it would be impossible to tell them all. The Path of the Bones belongs to no one and everyone. The Path of the Bones only understands bones. Beneath the skin, beyond physical, linguistic or cultural barriers, you and I are made of the same essence and held by the same skeleton. In a world full of barriers, in which we have to jump to relate to one another, bones speak a universal language that connect us. Bones, together with the elements of nature, are the basis of the spirituality of humanity. The cult of bones and the cult of the ancestors are very old, dating back to prehistoric times. The first rituals were born near the dead. Bones are not something out of the ordinary, yet there are still people who fear them. Bones are magical. Bones leave a trail that we can follow - it is up to us to follow that path of bones to the entrails of our own history.
Author : Geoffrey Blundell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315420325
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Seeing and Knowing written by Geoffrey Blundell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the pioneering research of David Lewis-Williams as a foundation, contributors from around the world examine how the availability of ethnographic analogies, or lack thereof, affect the interpretation of rock art.
Author : Carl A. P. Ruck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Hidden World written by Carl A. P. Ruck and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was mainly only the European urban centers that converted to Christianity, and often more for political or commercial interests, than as a matter of faith. The old religions persisted in the villages or pagani, from which the term Paganism arose. The Christians built their sanctuaries upon the pagan sites, expropriating their numinous past, assimilating the symbolism of the former deities, and commonly incorporating the actual architectural remnants. The wisdom of those deposed gods and their rites persisted in less objectionable forms -- disguised to delude the censors -- as country festivals and quaint tales often about the fairy folk, who coexisted with this world and could be accessed by magical procedures that perpetuated half-remembered methods of authentic ancient shamanism. Such shamanism always involved pharmaceutical expertise. Mircea Eliade was mistaken in concluding that drugs were characteristic only of the late and decadent stages of a religion. Rock paintings of the greatest antiquity and his own abundant citations indicate that, instead, a pharmacological Eucharist was the norm; and Eliade was himself about to reverse his stance shortly before his death. Encoded in tales seemingly as simple as Snow White with her poisoned red and white apple are themes traceable back to the great epics of Homer and the Mesopotamian Gilgamesh. These patterns of shamanic empowerment lurk also in the histories of the leading families of Europe, who could not completely divest themselves of the former religious basis for their right to rule, but instead they embraced, Christianized, and buried it in sanctified graves, as was the case with the great fairy Melusina, whose eighth abominable son, called Horrible, was murdered. A number of churches involved in the Albigensian heresy claim his body was laid to rest beneath them.
Author : Jean Clottes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Shamans of Prehistory written by Jean Clottes and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Lewis-Williams
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500770468
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Deciphering Ancient Minds: The Mystery of San Bushmen Rock Art written by David Lewis-Williams and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goes to the heart of contemporary arguments about the "primitive" and the "modern" minds, and draws new social, anthropological, and ethnographic conclusions about the nature of ancient societies. How did ancient peoples—those living before written records—think? Were their thinking patterns fundamentally different from ours today? Researchers over the years have certainly believed so. Along with the Aborigines of Australia, the indigenous San people of southern Africa—among the last hunter-gatherer societies on Earth—became iconic representatives of all our distant ancestors and were viewed as either irrational fantasists or childlike, highly spiritual conservationists. Since the 1960s a new wave of research among the San and their world-famous rock art has overturned these misconceived ideas. Here, the great authority David Lewis-Williams and his colleague Sam Challis reveal how analysis of the rock paintings and engravings can be made to yield vital insights into San beliefs and ways of thought. This is possible because we possess comprehensive transcriptions, made in the nineteenth century, of interviews with San informants who were shown copies of the art and gave their interpretations of it. Using the analogy of the Rosetta Stone, the authors move back and forth between these San texts and the rock art, teasing out the subtle meanings behind both. The picture that emerges is very different from past analysis: this art is not a naive narrative of daily life but rather is imbued with power and religious depth.
Author : Rafael Salin-Pascual
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105607941
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)
Download or read book El Chente Volador y los dos Chamanes del Sur written by Rafael Salin-Pascual and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a crime novel of fantastic realism, if this kind exists, where a car accident, uncover the strings of power in a country like Mexico, where all decisions are resting on the tips of the pyramids of power. Of course this is diversified, but in the hands of few people.
Author : Sharon Gordon
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
ISBN 13 : 9780761428992
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Rain Forest Animals written by Sharon Gordon and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2008 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easy to read text with rebuses explores animals that live in the rain forest.
Author : Benjamin Alberti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134597835
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Archaeology in Latin America written by Benjamin Alberti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-16 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering and comprehensive survey is the first overview of current themes in Latin American archaeology written solely by academics native to the region, and it makes their collected expertise available to an English-speaking audience for the first time. The contributors cover the most significant issues in the archaeology of Latin America, such as the domestication of camelids, the emergence of urban society in Mesoamerica, the frontier of the Inca empire, and the relatively little known archaeology of the Amazon basin. This book draws together key areas of research in Latin American archaeological thought into a coherent whole; no other volume on this area has ever dealt with such a diverse range of subjects, and some of the countries examined have never before been the subject of a regional study.
Author : Bruno David
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0190607351
Total Pages : 1185 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art written by Bruno David and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 1185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock art is one of the most visible and geographically widespread of cultural expressions, and it spans much of the period of our species' existence. Rock art also provides rare and often unique insights into the minds and visually creative capacities of our ancestors and how selected rock outcrops with distinctive images were used to construct symbolic landscapes and shape worldviews. Equally important, rock art is often central to the expression of and engagement with spiritual entities and forces, and in all these dimensions it signals the diversity of cultural practices, across place and through time. Over the past 150 years, archaeologists have studied ancient arts on rock surfaces, both out in the open and within caves and rock shelters, and social anthropologists have revealed how people today use art in their daily lives. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art showcases examples of such research from around the world and across a broad range of cultural contexts, giving a sense of the art's regional variability, its antiquity, and how it is meaningful to people in the recent past and today - including how we have ourselves tended to make sense of the art of others, replete with our own preconceptions. It reviews past, present, and emerging theoretical approaches to rock art investigation and presents new, cutting-edge methods of rock art analysis for the student and professional researcher alike.
Author : David Lewis-Williams
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500770433
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Conceiving God: The Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion written by David Lewis-Williams and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A controversial exploration of the origin of religion in the neurology of the human brain. In this book the noted cognitive archaeologist David Lewis-Williams confronts a question that troubles many people in the world today: Is there a supernatural realm that intervenes in the material world of daily life and leads to the evolution of religions? Professor Lewis-Williams first describes how science developed within the cocoon of religion and then shows how the natural functioning of the human brain creates experiences that can lead to belief in a supernatural realm, beings, and interventions. Once people have these experiences, they formulate beliefs about them, and thus creeds are born. Forty thousand years ago, people were leaving traces in the archaeological record of activities that we can label religious, and Lewis-Williams discusses in detail the evidence preserved in the Volp Caves in France. He also shows that mental imagery produced by the functioning of the human brain can be detected in widely separated religious communities such as Hildegard of Bingen’s in medieval Europe or the San hunters of southern Africa.
Author : Primitiva Bueno Ramírez
Publisher : Archaeopress Archaeology
ISBN 13 : 9781784912222
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Prehistoric Art as Prehistoric Culture written by Primitiva Bueno Ramírez and published by Archaeopress Archaeology. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diverse papers in this volume, published in honour of Professor de Balbin, cover a wide variety of the decorated caves which traditionally defined Palaeolithic art, as well as the open-air art of the period, a subject in which he has done pioneering work at Siega Verde and elsewhere.
