The concept of shamanism
Subtitle: uses and abuses
By: edited by Henri-Paul Francfort and Roberte N. Hamayon, in collaboration with Paul G. Bahn.
Contributors: Francfort, Henri Paul.; Hamayon, Roberte.; Bahn, Paul G.
Series: Bibliotheca shamanistica,; v. 10
Publisher: Akadémiai Kiadó
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Budapest
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: Shamanism -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Part one includes new papers not presented at the conference.
"The project of this book emerged from two sessions of the 4th International Conference of the International Society for Shamanistic Research held at Chantilly, France, on 1-5 September 1997."--Acknowledgments.
Table of contents: title: Shamanism : symbolic system, human capability and western ideology / Robert Nicole Hamayon; title: Prehistoric section : an introduction / Henri-Paul Francfort; title: Save the last trance for me : an assessment of the misuse of shamanism in rock art studies / Paul G. Bahn; title: Encounters with shamanism / Michel Lorblanchet; title: An all-embracing universal hunter-gatherer religion? : discussing shamanism and Spanish Levantime rock-art / Margarita Díaz-Andreu; title: Shamans and Martians : the same struggle? / Jean-Loïc Le Quellec; title: What is an explanation? : belief and cosmology in interpretations of southern San rock art in Southern Africa / Anne Solomon; title: The northern Ojibwa Indians : testing the universality of the shamanic/entoptic theory / Jack Steinbring; title: Smoke and mirrors : rock art and shamanism in California and the Great Basin / Angus R. Quinlin; title: Shamanitis : a pre-Columbian art historical disease / Cecelia F. Klein ... [et al.]; title: Art, archaeology and the prehistories of shamanism in Inner Asia / Henri-Paul Francfort; title: Shamans, shamanism and anthropomorphizing imagery in prehistoric rock art of the Mongolian Altay / Esther Jacobson; title: Shamanism and neoshamanism : what is the difference? / Ulla Johanses; title: Reconstruction of the shamanic space and mystical tourism in the Mazatec Region (Mexico) / Magali Demanget; title: Opening the gate of writing : literate shamans in modern Korea / Boudewijn Walraven; title: Shamanism, female possession and the embodiment of national symbols : the case of the "dancing religion" in Japan / Klaus-Peter Koepping; title: Shamanism and New Age : Lakota Sioux connections / Danièle Vazeilles.