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Category : Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Contributions to ethnology and linguistics, archaeology, and physical anthropology of Indian America.
Indiana
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Category : Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Contributions to ethnology and linguistics, archaeology, and physical anthropology of Indian America.
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Category : Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Contributions to ethnology and linguistics, archaeology, and physical anthropology of Indian America.
Shamanism [2 volumes]
Author: Mariko Namba Walter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1576076466
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
A guide to worldwide shamanism and shamanistic practices, emphasizing historical and current cultural adaptations. This two-volume reference is the first international survey of shamanistic beliefs from prehistory to the present day. In nearly 200 detailed, readable entries, leading ethnographers, psychologists, archaeologists, historians, and scholars of religion and folk literature explain the general principles of shamanism as well as the details of widely varied practices. What is it like to be a shaman? Entries describe, region by region, the traits, such as sicknesses and dreams, that mark a person as a shaman, as well as the training undertaken by initiates. They detail the costumes, music, rituals, artifacts, and drugs that shamans use to achieve altered states of consciousness, communicate with spirits, travel in the spirit world, and retrieve souls. Unlike most Western books on shamanism, which focus narrowly on the individual's experience of healing and trance, Shamanism also examines the function of shamanism in society from social, political, and historical perspectives and identifies the ancient, continuous thread that connects shamanistic beliefs and rituals across cultures and millennia.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1576076466
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
A guide to worldwide shamanism and shamanistic practices, emphasizing historical and current cultural adaptations. This two-volume reference is the first international survey of shamanistic beliefs from prehistory to the present day. In nearly 200 detailed, readable entries, leading ethnographers, psychologists, archaeologists, historians, and scholars of religion and folk literature explain the general principles of shamanism as well as the details of widely varied practices. What is it like to be a shaman? Entries describe, region by region, the traits, such as sicknesses and dreams, that mark a person as a shaman, as well as the training undertaken by initiates. They detail the costumes, music, rituals, artifacts, and drugs that shamans use to achieve altered states of consciousness, communicate with spirits, travel in the spirit world, and retrieve souls. Unlike most Western books on shamanism, which focus narrowly on the individual's experience of healing and trance, Shamanism also examines the function of shamanism in society from social, political, and historical perspectives and identifies the ancient, continuous thread that connects shamanistic beliefs and rituals across cultures and millennia.
Esta Es Una Tratamiento de Una Ofrenda Para Pedir la Lluvia
Author: Antonio López M.
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Living Art
Author: Kerin Gould
Publisher: Museum of International Folk Art
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Nestled in the steep, sloping hills of the Sierra Madre, just north of Puebla, Mexico, lies the remote Otomí village of San Pablito. With limited farming opportunities here, many villagers rely on traditional crafts for income. Women create whimsical embroidery and beadwork arts inspired by Otomí legends and the region's rich plant and animal life. Men carve benches in the shapes of horses, armadillos, and burros. Sounds of artisans pounding bark into sheets of thin, flat paper, or Amate, echo throughout the valley below. The Otomí crafts also serve traditional ceremonial purposes. Amate, for example, is carefully cut into mythological figures that curanderos (healers) use for curing ceremonies, and figures of seed spirits made from colorful tissue paper are used to encourage healthy crops. Despite the outside pressures of commercialism, the remarkable designs created by the villagers embody a rich cultural heritage that has been preserved for centuries. As one artisan explains, "This is the work our ancestors gave us." In Living Art: Designs and Crafts of the Otomí of San Pablito, sixty Otomí artworks from the collections of the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, are reproduced along with photographs of the town and community. The text by Kerin Gould-who lived and worked in the community for two years and continues to visit regularly-explores the history and origins of the Otomí culture, examining the legends and ceremonial practices that inspire the intricate designs of their modern-day creations. The foreword by curator Barbara Mauldin provides an overview of the many crafts unique to the Otomí of San Pablito.
Publisher: Museum of International Folk Art
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Nestled in the steep, sloping hills of the Sierra Madre, just north of Puebla, Mexico, lies the remote Otomí village of San Pablito. With limited farming opportunities here, many villagers rely on traditional crafts for income. Women create whimsical embroidery and beadwork arts inspired by Otomí legends and the region's rich plant and animal life. Men carve benches in the shapes of horses, armadillos, and burros. Sounds of artisans pounding bark into sheets of thin, flat paper, or Amate, echo throughout the valley below. The Otomí crafts also serve traditional ceremonial purposes. Amate, for example, is carefully cut into mythological figures that curanderos (healers) use for curing ceremonies, and figures of seed spirits made from colorful tissue paper are used to encourage healthy crops. Despite the outside pressures of commercialism, the remarkable designs created by the villagers embody a rich cultural heritage that has been preserved for centuries. As one artisan explains, "This is the work our ancestors gave us." In Living Art: Designs and Crafts of the Otomí of San Pablito, sixty Otomí artworks from the collections of the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, are reproduced along with photographs of the town and community. The text by Kerin Gould-who lived and worked in the community for two years and continues to visit regularly-explores the history and origins of the Otomí culture, examining the legends and ceremonial practices that inspire the intricate designs of their modern-day creations. The foreword by curator Barbara Mauldin provides an overview of the many crafts unique to the Otomí of San Pablito.
Subject Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
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Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
Handbook of Latin American Studies
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
Journal of Mesoamerican Studies
National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
American Indian Quarterly
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Category : Indians of Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 940
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Category : Indians of Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 940
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The New Scholar
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
A journal of graduate studies in the social sciences.
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
A journal of graduate studies in the social sciences.