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Author: Neil S Price
The Archaeology of Shamanism 1st Table of contents:
Part One: The archaeology of shamanism cognition, cosmology and world-view
Chapter One: An archaeology of altered states: shamanism and material culture studies
Introduction: Šaman/sama: n/shaman
Shamanic research in russia and beyond
Shamanism and material culture studies
Modern paganism and the archaeology of (neo-)shamanism
Conclusion
References
Chapter Two: Southern african shamanistic rock art in its social and cognitive contexts
San religion in its social and conceptual contexts
San Rock Art
The acquisition of imagery
The manufacture of paint
The making of rock paintings
The use of rock paintings
San shamanism: an overall framework
Acknowledgements
Note
References
Part Two: Siberia and central asia the ‘cradle of shamanism’
Chapter Three: Rock art and the material culture of siberian and central asian shamanism
Introduction
Shamanic costume and its iconography in rock art
The shamanic drum
Shamanic head-gear
References
Chapter Four: Shamans, heroes and ancestors in the bronze castings of western Siberia
Introduction
Shamanism among theob’-ugrians
The bronze castings of westernsiberia
Shamans and warriors
The bird of prey
Bears in bronze
Conclusion
References
Chapter Five: Sun gods or shamans? interpreting the ‘solar-headed’ petroglyphs of central asia1
Introduction
Centralasia,shamanism and rock art
‘sun gods’
Following the horse
Meaning found in the rock
Sun-headed images, shamanism and theindo-iranians
Tamgaly petroglyphs versus other‘sun-headed’images incentralasia
Eschatology and interaction
Notes
References
Chapter Six: The materiality of shamanism as a ‘world-view’: praxis, artefacts and landscape
Introduction
Souls,spirits andkhanty cosmology
Khanty shamanism
Broader social and material contexts to khanty shamanism
Thekhanty of westernsiberia
Malyiiugankhanty material culture
Discussion
Summary: the materiality of a shamanic world-view
Notes
References
Chapter Seven: The medium of the message: Shamanism as localised practice in the Nepal Himalayas
Introduction
The significance of space
The shamanic drum
‘altered states of awareness’
Material culture and socio-spatial context
Frameworks of distance,properties and polarity
Resonance and meaning
Conclusion
References
Part Three: North america and the north atlantic
Chapter Eight: The gendered peopling of north america: addressing the antiquity of systems of multiple genders
Introduction
Shamanism and gender in anthropological research
Shamanistic power and sexuality
Mediation
Third and fourth genders
Archaeological implications
References
Chapter Nine: Shamanism and the iconography of palaeo-eskimo art
Introduction
Description of palaeo-eskimo art
Shamanic themes
Other imagery inpalaeo-eskimo art
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter Ten: Social bonding and shamanism among late dorset groups in high arctic greenland
Introduction
Who were the‘strongtunit’?
In search of the dorset people at the ‘gateway togreenland’
Excavation of a megalithic structure
Shamanism and cosmology
Social bonding as an interpretive element
Vestiges of anuralo-siberian complex
Conclusion
References
Part Four: Northern europe
Chapter Eleven: Special objects – special creatures: shamanistic imagery and the aurignacian art1 of south-west germany
Previous interpretations of theswabian statuettes
Theaurignacian art of south-westgermany
Shamanism and theaurignacian art of theswabianmountains
Note
References
Chapter Twelve: The sounds of transformation: acoustics, monuments and ritual in the british neolithic
Introduction
Acatalogue of dead monuments?
Sensing the world
Worlds of sound
Sound and ritual–an example fromsiberia
Sound and trance
Infrasound
Discussion: the senses and transformation
‘so at last they summoned a shaman’?
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter Thirteen: An ideology of transformation: cremation rites and animal sacrifice in early anglo-saxon england
Introduction
Cremation practices and animal sacrifice in early anglo-saxonengland
Context and interpretation: animals and funerals in anglo-saxonengland
Death,animals and shamanism: anthropological parallels
Death, animals and shamanism: scandinavian sources
Death and animals: anglo-saxon written and pictoral sources
Discussion
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter Fourteen: Waking ancestor spirits: neo-shamanic engagements with archaeology
Introduction
Autoarchaeology
Neo-shamanism and contemporarypaganism
Case study1
Case study2
Seeing towards‘extra pay’for shamanisms, present and past
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