age
altered
Arctic Small Tool Tradition
art
Asatru Folk Assembly
bronze
Category=NKA
Central ASIA
cognitive archaeology
cognitive neuroscience of shamanism
cosmological worldviews
Cremation Rites
Dorset Culture
Dorset People
Early Anglo-Saxon
Eastern Arctic
Entoptic Phenomena
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
gender and identity studies
indigenous belief systems
Lineage Deities
mortuary practices
Native North American Societies
Passage Graves
practice
ritual soundscapes
rituals
rock
Rock Art
Rock Art Images
Rock Art Panel
San Rock Art
shamanic
Shamanic Belief System
Shamanic Practice
Shamanic Rituals
Shamanistic Interpretation
siberian
Siberian Peoples
Spong Hill
states
Vice Versa
Western Siberia
Product details
- ISBN 9780415252553
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 170 x 245mm
- Publication Date: 25 Oct 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this timely collection, Neil Price provides a general introduction to the archaeology of shamanism by bringing together recent archaeological thought on the subject. Blending theoretical discussion with detailed case studies, the issues addressed include shamanic material culture, responses to dying and the dead, shamanic soundscapes, the use of ritual architecture and shamanism in the context of other belief systems such as totemism. Following an intial orientation reviewing shamanism as an anthropological construct, the volume focuses on the Northern hemisphere with case studies from Greenland to Nepal, Siberia to Kazakhstan. The papers span a chronological range from Upper Palaeolithic to the present and explore such cross-cutting themes as gender and the body, identity, landscape, architecture, as well as shamanic interpretations of rock art and shamanism in the heritage and cultural identity of indigenous peoples. The volume also addresses the interpretation of shamanic beliefs in terms of cognitive neuroscience and the modern public perception of prehistoric shamanism.
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).
