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Wayward Shamans – The Prehistory of an Idea Paperback - 2013
by Toma, Kova Silvia
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- Title Wayward Shamans – The Prehistory of an Idea
- Author Toma, Kova Silvia
- Binding Paperback
- Condition New
- Pages 271
- Language ENG
- Publisher Univ of California Pr
- Date 2013
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # x-0520275322
- ISBN 9780520275324
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- Aspects (Academic): Religious
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From the rear cover
"Wayward Shamans is a 'must read' for all those working with shamanic ethnographies in the interpretation of ancient rock art and archaeology. Through an exploration of the vibrant, contextual, changing nature of 'shamanism' in actual case studies, it exposes the constructed and flawed nature of many modern understandings of 'shamanism'. It provides a vital caution to any reading of the global past that purports to be 'shamanic'." --Benjamin Smith, Rock Art Research Institute, South Africa
"'Archaeologists regularly cast shamans as the stars of their scenarios, ' Silvia Tomskov writes in this wonderfully erudite study. But how did shamans come to figure so prominently in a European world of wonder, and how have they managed to endure so long as archetypes of the exotic? Taking us from Siberia to South Africa, through prehistory and primitive art, Tomskov offers us a sharp rendering of the long tangled relationships between religion, science, and art." --Bruce Grant, Professor of Anthropology at New York University
"'Archaeologists regularly cast shamans as the stars of their scenarios, ' Silvia Tomskov writes in this wonderfully erudite study. But how did shamans come to figure so prominently in a European world of wonder, and how have they managed to endure so long as archetypes of the exotic? Taking us from Siberia to South Africa, through prehistory and primitive art, Tomskov offers us a sharp rendering of the long tangled relationships between religion, science, and art." --Bruce Grant, Professor of Anthropology at New York University
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