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In popular culture, such diverse characters as occultist Aleister Crowley, Doors musician Jim Morrison, and performance artist Joseph Beuys have been called shamans. In anthropology, on the other hand, shamanism has associations with sorcery, witchcraft and healing, and archaeologists have suggested the meaning of prehistoric cave art lies with shamans and altered consciousness. Robert J. Wallis explores the interface between 'new' and prehistoric shamans. The book draws on interviews with a variety of practitioners, particularly contemporary pagans in Britain and north America. Wallis looks at historical and archaeological sources to explore contemporary pagan engagements with prehistoric sacred sites such as Stonehenge and Avebury, and discusses the controversial use by neo-Shamans of indigenous (particularly native American) shamanism. eBook available with sample pages: 0203417577
In popular culture, such diverse characters as occultist Aleister Crowley, Doors musician Jim Morrison, and performance artist Joseph Beuys have been called shamans. In anthropology, on the other hand, shamanism has associations with sorcery, witchcraft and healing, and archaeologists have suggested the meaning of prehistoric cave art lies with shamans and altered consciousness. Robert J. Wallis explores the interface between 'new' and prehistoric shamans. The book draws on interviews with a variety of practitioners, particularly contemporary pagans in Britain and north America. Wallis looks at historical and archaeological sources to explore contemporary pagan engagements with prehistoric sacred sites such as Stonehenge and Avebury, and discusses the controversial use by neo-Shamans of indigenous (particularly native American) shamanism.
A global wave of reform is fundamentally reshaping the role of the
state in national economies. This book aims to provides a fresh
perspective on the political economy of this trend. It traces the
theoretical roots of the reforms to developments in public
economics which emphasize problems of government rather than market
failure. It then develops an economic theory of leadership to
explain how policy leadership networks can strive to influence the
direction of reform processes.
The newspaper headline of July 29th 1980, Yellow Peril to go, said
it all. After barely three months of holding centre stage in
Melbournes new City Square amidst a barrage of abuse, the bright
yellow sculpture was carted off to be re-erected at Batman Park in
a rather neglected corner of the city. Here Vault, as the sculpture
was eventually named by its creator, Ron Robertson-Swann, remained
until...Peril in the Square follows the highs and lows of Vault,
Ron Robertson-Swanns bright yellow abstract sculpture dubbed by its
detractors as the Yellow Peril. Vault was the catalyst for the most
furious debate over the rights and wrongs of art in public places
ever witnessed in Australia. Richly illustrated with nearly 100
photographs, most of them in colour, Peril in the Square will give
readers the full story of Melbournes best-known public art work,
from its beginnings as a maquette that shocked the city council in
the late 1970s, all the way to its present resurrection at
Southbank.
Given its pivotal location between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf
of Mexico, its numerous islands, its abundant flora and fauna, and
its subtropical climate, Florida has long been ideal for human
habitation. Representing the next wave of southeastern archaeology,
the essays in this book resoundingly argue that Florida is a
crucial hub of archaeological inquiry. Contributors use new data to
challenge well-worn models of environmental determinism and
localized social contact. Themes of monumentality, human
alterations of landscapes, the natural environment, ritual and
mortuary practices, and coastal adaptations demonstrate the
diversity, empirical richness, and broader anthropological
significance of Florida's aboriginal past.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
Candidates can prepare with confidence for the Geriatric Medicine
Specialty Certificate Examination with this revision guide designed
specifically for the exam. Containing 300 Best of Five questions,
the content is carefully mapped to the curriculum ensuring
comprehensive preparation. The questions mirror the format of those
candidates can expect to find in the exam, and cover all of the key
topics, including dementia and delirium, palliative care,
nutrition, and stroke. Explanatory answers include references to
guidelines and other sources to enable further reading and study.
The second edition addresses the latest clinical guidelines and
supporting literature, Non-vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants
(NOACs), and changes in health and social care policy. This new
edition is also suitable for candidates preparing for the Diploma
in Geriatric Medicine exam. Providing a thorough assessment of the
reader's geriatric medicine knowledge, this is the only revision
guide candidates will need to pass the Geriatric Medicine Specialty
Certificate Examination first time.
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.
"Theoretically sophisticated and empirically well-grounded. Sets a
course for exciting new directions in archaeology at the edge of
the American South and the broader Caribbean world."--Christopher
B. Rodning, coeditor of "Archaeological Studies of Gender in the
Southeastern United States" "Successfully repositions the story of
Florida's native peoples from the peripheries of history and
anthropology to center stage."--Thomas E. Emerson, author of
"Cahokia and the Archaeology of Power" Given its pivotal location
between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, its numerous
islands, its abundant flora and fauna, and its subtropical climate,
Florida has long been ideal for human habitation. Yet Florida
traditionally has been considered peripheral in the study of
ancient cultures in North America, despite what it can reveal about
social and climate change. The essays in this book resoundingly
argue that Florida is in fact a crucial hub of archaeological
inquiry.
"New Histories of Pre-Columbian Florida" represents the next wave
of southeastern archaeology. Contributors use new data to challenge
well-worn models of environmental determinism and localized social
contact. Indeed, this volume makes a case for considerable
interaction and exchange among Native Floridians and the greater
southeastern United States as seen by the variety of objects of
distant origin and mound-building traditions that incorporated
extraregional concepts. Themes of monumentality, human alterations
of landscapes, the natural environment, ritual and mortuary
practices, and coastal adaptations demonstrate the diversity,
empirical richness, and broader anthropological significance of
Florida's aboriginal past.
Few religious traditions have generated such diversity and stirred
imaginations as shamanism. In their engagements with other worlds,
shamans have conversed with animals and ancestors and have been
empowered with the knowledge to heal patients, advise hunters, and
curse enemies. Still other shamans, aided by rhythmic music or
powerful plant helpers, undertake journeys into different realities
where their actions negotiate harmony between human and other than
human communities. Once relegated to paintings on cave walls, today
Shamanism can be seen in performances at rave clubs and
psychotherapeutic clinics. The A to Z of Shamanism has the duel
task of exploring the common ground of shamanic traditions and
evaluating the diversity of both traditional indigenous communities
and individual Western seekers. This is done in an introduction, a
bibliography, a chronology, and hundreds of cross-referenced
dictionary entries, which explore the consistent features of a
variety of shamans, the purposes shamanism serves, the function and
activities of the shaman, and the cultural contexts in which they
make sense.
Of all avian groups, birds of prey in particular have long been a
prominent subject of fascination in many human societies. This book
demonstrates that the art and materiality of human engagements with
raptors has been significant through deep time and across the
world, from earliest prehistory to Indigenous thinking in the
present day. Drawing on a wide range of global case studies and a
plurality of complementary perspectives, it explores the varied and
fluid dynamics between humans and birds of prey as evidenced in
this diverse art-historical and archaeological record. From their
depictions as powerful beings in visual art and their important
roles in Indigenous mythologies, to the significance of their body
parts as active agents in religious rituals, the intentional
deposition of their faunal remains and the display of their
preserved bodies in museums, there is no doubt that birds of prey
have been figures of great import for the shaping of human society
and culture. However, several of the chapters in this volume are
particularly concerned with looking beyond the culture–nature
dichotomy and human-centred accounts to explore perspectival and
other post-humanist thinking on human–raptor ontologies and
epistemologies. The contributors recognize that human–raptor
relationships are not driven exclusively by human intentionality,
and that when these species meet they relate-to and become-with one
another. This 'raptor-with-human'-focused approach allows for a
productive re-framing of questions about human–raptor
interstices, enables fresh thinking about established evidence and
offers signposts for present and future intra-actions with birds of
prey.
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