The Archaeology of Shamanism

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ISBN: 9780415252553 | 0415252555
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Copyright: 12/7/2001

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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.

List of figures

vii

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

PART ONE The archaeology of shamanism: Cognition, cosmology and world-view

An Archaeology of Altered States: Shamanism and Material Culture Studies

(14)

Neil S. Price

Southern African shamanistic rock art in its social and cognitive contexts

(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

(13)

Ekaterina Devlet

Shamans, heroes and ancestors in the bronze castings of western Siberia

(9)

Natalia Fedorova

Sun gods or shamans? Interpreting the `solar-headed' petroglyphs of Central Asia

(22)

Andrzej Rozwadowski

The materiality of shamanism as a `world-view': Praxis, artefacts and landscape

(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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