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Providing a fresh look at some of the pressing issues of our world
today, this collection focuses on experiential and ritualized
coping practices in response to a multitude of environmental
challenges-cyclones, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, earthquakes,
warfare and displacements of peoples and environmental resource
exploitation. Eco-cosmological practices conducted by skilled
healing practitioners utilize knowledge embedded in the
cosmological grounding of place and experiences of place and the
landscapes in which such experience is encapsulated. A range of
geographic case studies are presented in this volume, exploring
Asia, Europe, the Pacific, and South America. With special
reference throughout to ritual as a mode of seeking the
stabilization, renewal, and continuity of life processes, this
volume will be of particular interest to readers working in
shamanic and healing practices, environmental concerns surrounding
sustainability and conservation, ethnomedical systems, and
religious and ritual studies.
Proposing a new theoretical framework, this book explores
Shamanism's links with violence from a global perspective.
Contributors, renowned anthropologists and authorities in the
field, draw on their research in Mongolia, China, Korea, Malaysia,
Nepal, India, Siberia, America, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan to
investigate how indigenous shamanic cultures dealt, and are still
dealing with, varying degrees of internal and external violence.
During ceremonies shamans act like hunters and warriors, dealing
with many states related to violence, such as collective and
individual suffering, attack, conflict and antagonism. Indigenous
religious complexes are often called to respond to direct and
indirect competition with more established cultural and religious
traditions which undermine the sociocultural structure, the sense
of identity and the state of well-being of many indigenous groups.
This book explores a more sensitive vision of shamanism, closer to
the emic views of many indigenous groups.
Proposing a new theoretical framework, this book explores
Shamanism's links with violence from a global perspective.
Contributors, renowned anthropologists and authorities in the
field, draw on their research in Mongolia, China, Korea, Malaysia,
Nepal, India, Siberia, America, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan to
investigate how indigenous shamanic cultures dealt, and are still
dealing with, varying degrees of internal and external violence.
During ceremonies shamans act like hunters and warriors, dealing
with many states related to violence, such as collective and
individual suffering, attack, conflict and antagonism. Indigenous
religious complexes are often called to respond to direct and
indirect competition with more established cultural and religious
traditions which undermine the sociocultural structure, the sense
of identity and the state of well-being of many indigenous groups.
This book explores a more sensitive vision of shamanism, closer to
the emic views of many indigenous groups.
Providing a fresh look at some of the pressing issues of our world
today, this collection focuses on experiential and ritualized
coping practices in response to a multitude of environmental
challenges-cyclones, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, earthquakes,
warfare and displacements of peoples and environmental resource
exploitation. Eco-cosmological practices conducted by skilled
healing practitioners utilize knowledge embedded in the
cosmological grounding of place and experiences of place and the
landscapes in which such experience is encapsulated. A range of
geographic case studies are presented in this volume, exploring
Asia, Europe, the Pacific, and South America. With special
reference throughout to ritual as a mode of seeking the
stabilization, renewal, and continuity of life processes, this
volume will be of particular interest to readers working in
shamanic and healing practices, environmental concerns surrounding
sustainability and conservation, ethnomedical systems, and
religious and ritual studies.
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