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Wayward Shamans: The Prehistory of an Idea, Tomaskova 9780520275324 PB+=
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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- PublishedOn
- 2013-05-03
- Title
- Wayward Shamans: The Prehistory of an Idea
- ISBN
- 9780520275324
- Subject Area
- Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science, History
- Publication Name
- Wayward Shamans : the Prehistory of an Idea
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Archaeology, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Shamanism, Anthropology / General, Customs & Traditions
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Item Weight
- 14.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520275322
ISBN-13
9780520275324
eBay Product ID (ePID)
150507084
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Publication Name
Wayward Shamans : the Prehistory of an Idea
Language
English
Subject
Archaeology, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Shamanism, Anthropology / General, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2012-047119
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
The author finely demonstrates how shamans lost their _historical diversity_ and _gender variability_; Wayward shamans is a highly interesting and rigorous study that should definitely captivate the attention of those interested in the history of religions, of art, and of Western ideas of otherness and their crucial gender dimensions., The author finely demonstrates how shamans lost their 'historical diversity' and 'gender variability'; Wayward shamans is a highly interesting and rigorous study that should definitely captivate the attention of those interested in the history of religions, of art, and of Western ideas of otherness and their crucial gender dimensions.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
201/.44
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Discoveries of an Imaginary Place Chapter 2 Strange Landscapes, Familiar Magic Chapter 3 People in a Land Before Time Chapter 4 The Invention of Siberian Ethnology Chapter 5 Sex, Gender, and Encounters with Spirits Chapter 6 Changed Men and Changed Women Chapter 7: French Connections and the Spirits of Prehistory Chapter 8: Conclusion Notes Bibliographic Note References
Synopsis
Wayward Shamans tells the story of an idea that humanity's first expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, the work follows the trajectory of European knowledge about the continent's eastern frontier. The ethnographic record left by German natural historians engaged in the Russian colonial expansion project in the 18th century includes a range of shamanic practitioners, varied by gender and age. Later accounts by exiled Russian revolutionaries noted transgendered shamans. This variation vanished, however, in the translation of shamanism into archaeology theory, where a male sorcerer emerged as the key agent of prehistoric art. More recent efforts to provide a universal shamanic explanation for rock art via South Africa and neurobiology likewise gloss over historical evidence of diversity. By contrast this book argues for recognizing indeterminacy in the categories we use, and reopening them by recalling their complex history.
LC Classification Number
GN475.8.T66 2013
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