Shamanism and the Origin of States - 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 and the Origin of States write by Sarah Milledge Nelson. This book was released on 2019-07-23. Shamanism and the Origin of States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sarah Milledge Nelson’s bold thesis is that the development of states in East Asia—China, Japan, Korea—was an outgrowth of the leadership in smaller communities guided by shamans. Using a mixture of historical documents, mythology, archaeological data, and ethnographic studies of contemporary shamans, she builds a case for shamans being the driving force behind the blossoming of complex societies. More interesting, shamans in East Asia are generally women, who used their access to the spirit world to take leadership roles. This work challenges traditional interpretations growth of Asian states, which is overlaid with later Confucian notions of gender roles. Written at a level accessible for undergraduates, this concise work will be fascinating reading for those interested in East Asian archaeology, politics, and society; in gender roles, and in shamanism.
Shamanism, History, and the State
Shamanism, History, and the State - 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, History, and the State write by Nicholas Thomas. This book was released on 1996. Shamanism, History, and the State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nine case studies of shamanic practice in widely different cultures
Shamanism
Shamanism - 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 write by Merete Demant Jakobsen. This book was released on 1999. Shamanism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shamanism has always been of great interest to anthropologists. More recently it has been discovered by westerners, especially New Age followers. This book breaks new ground byexamining pristine shamanism in Greenland, among people contacted late by Western missionaries and settlers. On the basis of material only available in Danish, and presented herein English for the first time, the author questions Mircea Eliade's well-known definition of the shaman as the master of ecstasy and suggests that his role has to be seen as that of a master of spirits. The ambivalent nature of the shaman and the spirit world in the tough Arctic environment is then contrasted with the more benign attitude to shamanism in the New Age movement. After presenting descriptions of their organizations and accounts by participants, the author critically analyses the role of neo-shamanic courses and concludes that it is doubtful to consider what isoffered as shamanism.
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.
The Living Ancestors
The Living Ancestors - 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 The Living Ancestors write by Zeljko Jokic. This book was released on 2015-09-01. The Living Ancestors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This phenomenologically oriented ethnography focuses on experiential aspects of Yanomami shamanism, including shamanistic activities in the context of cultural change. The author interweaves ethnographic material with theoretical components of a holographic principle, or the idea that the “part is equal to the whole,” which is embedded in the nature of the Yanomami macrocosm, human dwelling, multiple-soul components, and shamans’ relationships with embodied spirit-helpers. This book fills an important gap in the regional study of Yanomami people, and, on a broader scale, enriches understanding of this ancient phenomenon by focusing on the consciousness involved in shamanism through firsthand experiential involvement.
