Author: Douglas Sharon
Publisher: Free Press
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
WIZARD OF THE FOUR WINDS: A SHAMAN'S STORY
Author: Douglas Sharon
Publisher: Free Press
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher: Free Press
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Shamanism [2 volumes]
Author: Mariko Namba Walter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1576076466
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
A guide to worldwide shamanism and shamanistic practices, emphasizing historical and current cultural adaptations. This two-volume reference is the first international survey of shamanistic beliefs from prehistory to the present day. In nearly 200 detailed, readable entries, leading ethnographers, psychologists, archaeologists, historians, and scholars of religion and folk literature explain the general principles of shamanism as well as the details of widely varied practices. What is it like to be a shaman? Entries describe, region by region, the traits, such as sicknesses and dreams, that mark a person as a shaman, as well as the training undertaken by initiates. They detail the costumes, music, rituals, artifacts, and drugs that shamans use to achieve altered states of consciousness, communicate with spirits, travel in the spirit world, and retrieve souls. Unlike most Western books on shamanism, which focus narrowly on the individual's experience of healing and trance, Shamanism also examines the function of shamanism in society from social, political, and historical perspectives and identifies the ancient, continuous thread that connects shamanistic beliefs and rituals across cultures and millennia.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1576076466
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
A guide to worldwide shamanism and shamanistic practices, emphasizing historical and current cultural adaptations. This two-volume reference is the first international survey of shamanistic beliefs from prehistory to the present day. In nearly 200 detailed, readable entries, leading ethnographers, psychologists, archaeologists, historians, and scholars of religion and folk literature explain the general principles of shamanism as well as the details of widely varied practices. What is it like to be a shaman? Entries describe, region by region, the traits, such as sicknesses and dreams, that mark a person as a shaman, as well as the training undertaken by initiates. They detail the costumes, music, rituals, artifacts, and drugs that shamans use to achieve altered states of consciousness, communicate with spirits, travel in the spirit world, and retrieve souls. Unlike most Western books on shamanism, which focus narrowly on the individual's experience of healing and trance, Shamanism also examines the function of shamanism in society from social, political, and historical perspectives and identifies the ancient, continuous thread that connects shamanistic beliefs and rituals across cultures and millennia.
The A to Z of Shamanism
Author: Graham Harvey
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0810876000
Category : Shamanism
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Explores the common ground of shamanic traditions and evaluates the diversity of both traditional indigenous communities and individual Western seekers.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0810876000
Category : Shamanism
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Explores the common ground of shamanic traditions and evaluates the diversity of both traditional indigenous communities and individual Western seekers.
Historical Dictionary of Shamanism
Author: Graham Harvey
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442257989
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
A remarkable array of people have been called shamans, while the phenomena identified as shamanism continues to proliferate. This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Shamanism contains with examples from antiquity up to today, and from Siberia (where the term “shaman” originated) to Amazonia, South Africa, Chicago and many other places. Many claims about shamans and shamanism are contentious and all are worthy of discussion. In the most widespread understandings, terms seem to refer particularly to people who alter states of consciousness or enter trances in order to seek knowledge and help from powerful other-than-human persons, perhaps “spirits”. But this says only a little about the artists, community leaders, spiritual healers or hucksters, travelers in alternative realities and so on to which the label “shaman” has been applied. This second edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and extensive bibliography. The dictionary contains over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on individuals, groups, practices and cultures that have been called “shamanic”. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Shamanism.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442257989
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
A remarkable array of people have been called shamans, while the phenomena identified as shamanism continues to proliferate. This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Shamanism contains with examples from antiquity up to today, and from Siberia (where the term “shaman” originated) to Amazonia, South Africa, Chicago and many other places. Many claims about shamans and shamanism are contentious and all are worthy of discussion. In the most widespread understandings, terms seem to refer particularly to people who alter states of consciousness or enter trances in order to seek knowledge and help from powerful other-than-human persons, perhaps “spirits”. But this says only a little about the artists, community leaders, spiritual healers or hucksters, travelers in alternative realities and so on to which the label “shaman” has been applied. This second edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and extensive bibliography. The dictionary contains over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on individuals, groups, practices and cultures that have been called “shamanic”. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Shamanism.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Shamanism
Author: Gini Graham Scott
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440695784
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
You’re no idiot, of course. You know that shamans are also known as medicine men and women, who use the power of the mind and call on spiritual helpers to heal the afflicted. However, this ancient art has been put to more modern uses, including problem-solving, empowerment, and personal mastery. But you don’t have to trek through steamy Amazonian jungles or frigid Siberian tundra to become enlightened in the ways of shamanism! The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Shamanism will show exactly how to discover your own shamanic power—and how that power will guide you in your everyday life! In this Complete Idiot’s Guide®, you get: - Shamanic history—from its origins in Paleolithic times to its spreading influence today. - Power animals—where to locate them and how they communicate with you. - How to take a shamanic journey—traveling through the Lower, Upper, and Middle Worlds, and exploring your past or future. - Shamanic healing techniques in use with modern medicine.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440695784
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
You’re no idiot, of course. You know that shamans are also known as medicine men and women, who use the power of the mind and call on spiritual helpers to heal the afflicted. However, this ancient art has been put to more modern uses, including problem-solving, empowerment, and personal mastery. But you don’t have to trek through steamy Amazonian jungles or frigid Siberian tundra to become enlightened in the ways of shamanism! The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Shamanism will show exactly how to discover your own shamanic power—and how that power will guide you in your everyday life! In this Complete Idiot’s Guide®, you get: - Shamanic history—from its origins in Paleolithic times to its spreading influence today. - Power animals—where to locate them and how they communicate with you. - How to take a shamanic journey—traveling through the Lower, Upper, and Middle Worlds, and exploring your past or future. - Shamanic healing techniques in use with modern medicine.
Shamans/Neo-Shamans
Author: Robert J. Wallis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134416121
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Robert J. Wallis explores the interface between the 'new' and prehistoric shamans of popular culture and anthropology, drawing on interviews with a variety of practitioners, particularly contemporary pagans in Britain and orth America.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134416121
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Robert J. Wallis explores the interface between the 'new' and prehistoric shamans of popular culture and anthropology, drawing on interviews with a variety of practitioners, particularly contemporary pagans in Britain and orth America.
Shamanism
Author: Graham Harvey
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415253307
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
This is an essential tribute to the vitality and breadth of shamanic tradition both amongst the most distant tribes of America and Asia, and within seemingly ordinary aspects of modern western culture.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415253307
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
This is an essential tribute to the vitality and breadth of shamanic tradition both amongst the most distant tribes of America and Asia, and within seemingly ordinary aspects of modern western culture.
Shamanism
Author: Andrei A. Znamenski
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415332491
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415332491
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Shamans of the 20th Century
Author: Ruth-Inge Heinze
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN: 9780829024593
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
"In Shamans of the 20th Century, anthropologist Ruth-Inge Heinze takes a critical look at the global re-emergence of the shaman in the late twentieth century, redefiing the role of the shama at a time when we in the West are questioning both our ways of knowing and medical practice. A pioneering work, hers is a much needed synthesis between third-world and primal people's holistic understanding of healing as embracing the total human condition-social, emotional, psychological as well as physical, and the radically innovative stance of Western New Age healers. Elinor W. Gadon" -- Back cover.
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN: 9780829024593
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
"In Shamans of the 20th Century, anthropologist Ruth-Inge Heinze takes a critical look at the global re-emergence of the shaman in the late twentieth century, redefiing the role of the shama at a time when we in the West are questioning both our ways of knowing and medical practice. A pioneering work, hers is a much needed synthesis between third-world and primal people's holistic understanding of healing as embracing the total human condition-social, emotional, psychological as well as physical, and the radically innovative stance of Western New Age healers. Elinor W. Gadon" -- Back cover.
Shamanism
Author: Shirley Nicholson
Publisher: Quest Books
ISBN: 0835631265
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
A powerful collection of essays from authors such as Mircea Eliade, Joan Halifax, Stanley Krippner, Brooke Medicine Eagle, Serge King, and Michael Harner on the mystifying phenomenon of shamanism around the world---what it is, how it works and why.
Publisher: Quest Books
ISBN: 0835631265
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
A powerful collection of essays from authors such as Mircea Eliade, Joan Halifax, Stanley Krippner, Brooke Medicine Eagle, Serge King, and Michael Harner on the mystifying phenomenon of shamanism around the world---what it is, how it works and why.