Shaman, Priest, Practice, Belief - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shaman, Priest, Practice, Belief write by Stephen B. Carmody. This book was released on 2019-12-31. Shaman, Priest, Practice, Belief available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Archaeological case studies consider material evidence of religion and ritual in the pre-Columbian Eastern Woodlands Archaeologists today are interpretin g Native American religion and ritual in the distant past in more sophisticated ways, considering new understandings of the ways that Native Americans themselves experienced them. Shaman, Priest, Practice, Belief: Materials of Ritual and Religion in Eastern North America broadly considers Native American religion and ritual in eastern North America and focuses on practices that altered and used a vast array of material items as well as how physical spaces were shaped by religious practices. Unbound to a single theoretical perspective of religion, contributors approach ritual and religion in diverse ways. Importantly, they focus on how people in the past practiced religion by altering and using a vast array of material items, from smoking pipes, ceremonial vessels, carved figurines, and iconographic images, to sacred bundles, hallucinogenic plants, revered animals, and ritual architecture. Contributors also show how physical spaces were shaped by religious practice, and how rock art, monuments, soils and special substances, and even land- and cityscapes were part of the active material worlds of religious agents. Case studies, arranged chronologically, cover time periods ranging from the Paleoindian period (13,000–7900 BC) to the late Mississippian and into the protohistoric/contact periods. The geographical scope is much of the greater southeastern and southern Midwestern culture areas of the Eastern Woodlands, from the Central and Lower Mississippi River Valleys to the Ohio Hopewell region, and from the greater Ohio River Valley down through the Deep South and across to the Carolinas. Contributors Sarah E. Baires / Melissa R. Baltus / Casey R. Barrier / James F. Bates / Sierra M. Bow / James A. Brown / Stephen B. Carmody / Meagan E. Dennison / Aaron Deter-Wolf / David H. Dye / Bretton T. Giles / Cameron Gokee / Kandace D. Hollenbach / Thomas A. Jennings / Megan C. Kassabaum / John E. Kelly / Ashley A. Peles / Tanya M. Peres / Charlotte D. Pevny / Connie M. Randall / Jan F. Simek / Ashley M. Smallwood / Renee B. Walker / Alice P. Wright
Sacraments and Shamans
Sacraments and Shamans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sacraments and Shamans write by Scott McCarthy. This book was released on 2012-02-15. Sacraments and Shamans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fr. Scott chronicles his attraction to Native ways as a young boy, his participation in Native American ceremonies, and his eagerness to learn more about the spiritual practices and teachings of peoples in the northern and southern hemispheres--a sacred life journey that has allowed him to travel among women, men, and children of just about every human culture.
Shamanic Healing and Ritual Drama
Shamanic Healing and Ritual Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shamanic Healing and Ritual Drama write by Åke Hultkrantz. This book was released on 1992. Shamanic Healing and Ritual Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this pioneering work one of the world's leading experts on Native American traditions offers a detailed survey of Native American practices and beliefs regarding health, medicine, and religion. In contrast to the sharp Euro-American division between medicine and religion, Native American medical beliefs and practices can only be assessed, says the author, in their relation to their religious ideas. Spanning the full length and breadth of Native North American cultural areas, from the Northeast to the Southwest, the Southeast to the Northwest, the book offers "thick" descriptions of traditional Native American medical and religious beliefs and practices, demonstrating that for Native Americans medicine and religion are two sides of the same coin: a coherent and holistic system in which supernaturalism acts as a motor in healing.
Shamanism in North America
Shamanism in North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shamanism in North America write by Norman Bancroft-Hunt. This book was released on 2002. Shamanism in North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Native Americans believed that it was their responsibility to maintain harmony in the natural world on which they depended by performing a variety of rituals. Shamans were credited with exceptional powers to act on behalf of the community. They claimed to be capable of separating their spirits from their bodies and interceding with those spirits that controlled the many forces of nature. Having studied the subject at first hand during his many visits to American tribes, Dr. Norman Bancroft Hunt sets out the richly rewarding results of his research in this survey of shamanic traditions and practices in various Native American groups. Shamanism in North America is profusely illustrated with the most remarkable masks, effigies, and implements used by shamans and includes evocative images of the often harsh wilderness inhabited by the tribes under discussion, as well as some revealing historical photographs of shamans.
Shamans, Priests, and Witches
Shamans, Priests, and Witches - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shamans, Priests, and Witches write by Michael Winkelman. This book was released on 1992. Shamans, Priests, and Witches available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
