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Wayward Shamans - The Prehistory of an Idea (Paperback)
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Wayward Shamans - The Prehistory of an Idea (Paperback)
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"Wayward Shamans" tells the story of an idea that humanityOCOs
first 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, the work follows the trajectory of European
knowledge about the continentOCOs eastern frontier. The
ethnographic record left by German natural historians engaged in
the Russian colonial expansion project in the 18th century includes
a range of shamanic practitioners, varied by gender and age. Later
accounts by exiled Russian revolutionaries noted transgendered
shamans. This variation vanished, however, in the translation of
shamanism into archaeology theory, where a male sorcerer emerged as
the key agent of prehistoric art. More recent efforts to provide a
universal shamanic explanation for rock art via South Africa and
neurobiology likewise gloss over historical evidence of diversity.
By contrast this book argues for recognizing indeterminacy in the
categories we use, and reopening them by recalling their complex
history.
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