Archaeological approaches to shamanism : mind-body, nature, and culture /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gheorghiu, Dragos (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
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Table of 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.