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Paperback / softback. New. Tells the story of an idea that humanity's 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, this title follows the trajectory of European knowledge about continent's eastern frontier.
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Wayward Shamans: The Prehistory of an Idea Paperback - 2013
by Tom�?kov�, Silvia
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"Wayward Shamans is a 'must read' for all those working with shamanic ethnographies in the interpretation of ancient rock art and archaeology. Through an exploration of the vibrant, contextual, changing nature of 'shamanism' in actual case studies, it exposes the constructed and flawed nature of many modern understandings of 'shamanism'. It provides a vital caution to any reading of the global past that purports to be 'shamanic'." --Benjamin Smith, Rock Art Research Institute, South Africa
"'Archaeologists regularly cast shamans as the stars of their scenarios, ' Silvia Tomskov writes in this wonderfully erudite study. But how did shamans come to figure so prominently in a European world of wonder, and how have they managed to endure so long as archetypes of the exotic? Taking us from Siberia to South Africa, through prehistory and primitive art, Tomskov offers us a sharp rendering of the long tangled relationships between religion, science, and art." --Bruce Grant, Professor of Anthropology at New York University
"'Archaeologists regularly cast shamans as the stars of their scenarios, ' Silvia Tomskov writes in this wonderfully erudite study. But how did shamans come to figure so prominently in a European world of wonder, and how have they managed to endure so long as archetypes of the exotic? Taking us from Siberia to South Africa, through prehistory and primitive art, Tomskov offers us a sharp rendering of the long tangled relationships between religion, science, and art." --Bruce Grant, Professor of Anthropology at New York University
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- Title Wayward Shamans: The Prehistory of an Idea
- Author Tom�?kov�, Silvia
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 271
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press
- Date 2013
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780520275324
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- Aspects (Academic): Religious
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