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Pages : 980

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Author: John A. Grim
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806121062
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Tribal peoples believe that the shaman experiences, absorbs, and communicates a special mode of power, sustaining and healing. This book discusses American Indian shamanic traditions, particularly those of the Woodland Ojibway, in terms drawn from the classical shamanism of Siberian peoples. Using a cultural-historical method, John A. Grim describes the spiritual formation of shamans, male and female, and elucidates the special religious experience that they transmit to their tribes. Writing as a historian of religion well acquainted with ethnological materials, Grim identifies four patterns in the shamanic experience: cosmology, tribal sanction, ritual reenactment, and trance experience. Relating those concepts to the Siberian and Ojibway experiences, he draws on mythology, sociology, anthropology, and psychology to paint a picture of shamanism that is both particularized and interpretative. As religious personalities, shamans are important today because of their singular ability to express symbolically the forces that animate the tribal cosmology. Often identifying themselves with primordial earth processes, shamans develop symbol systems drawn from the archetypal earth images that are vital to their psychic healing technique. This particular ability to resonate with the natural world is felt as an important need in our time. Those readers who identify with American Indians as they confront modern technological society will value this introduction to our native shamanic traditions and to the religious experience itself. The author's discussion of Ojibway practices is the most comprehensive short treatment available, written with a fine poetic feeling that reflects the literary expressiveness inherent in American Indian religion and thought.

Author: International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780422762502
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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First published in 1978. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415221047
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences.

Author: British Library of Political and Economic Science
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415064712
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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This bibliography lists the most important works in anthropology published in 1988.

Author: International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780422809306
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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First published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780422741903
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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First published in 1973. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.