The Archaeology of Shamanism

ISBN-13: 9780415252553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 256 str.

Neil S. Price

Opis

The meaning of shamanism has been debated for almost three centuries, ever since the term was coined to describe the activities of those who attained altered states of consciousness in order to mediate between human beings and the supernatural world. The ritual practices that characterized these perceived contacts with the immaterial have left highly physical traces in the archaeological record of prehistoric peoples, and the potential for the recognition of shamanic belief systems in the past is now being realized as never before.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).