The Archaeology of Shamanism (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Price, Neil

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134527694
• Artikelnr.: 47886375

Autorenporträt

Neil Price is a Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. He has written extensively on the Viking Age, and has conducted research projects in France, Iceland, Russia and Sápmi (Lappland).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
PART ONE The archaeology of shamanism: Cognition
cosmology and world-view
PART TWO Siberia and Central Asia: The 'cradle of shamanism'
PART THREE North America and the North Atlantic
PART FOUR Northern Europe
Index

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List of figures, List of contributors , Acknowledgements, PART ONE The archaeology of shamanism: Cognition, cosmology and world-view, PART TWO Siberia and Central Asia: The 'cradle of shamanism', PART THREE North America and the North Atlantic, PART FOUR Northern Europe, Index