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Nanai Shamanic Culture in Indigenous Discourse
This book on Nanai shamanic culture is based on first-hand information provided by shamans and recorded in the years between 1980 and 2012, a time of rapid socio-cultural change in Russia. It sheds light on the lively indigenous discourse in which social factors such as the splitting of society into different paternal lineages relates to spiritual troubles that Nanai people experience as collective ‘shamanic disease.’ But inter-clan confrontations are not only mediated in shamanic rituals, as these must not be separated from folk narratives, dances and other forms of art. Furthermore, the book provides profound insights into the plurality of contradictory discourses on indigenous knowledge as well as those delivered in non-indigenous contexts. The latter arose or became more intense in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, and often led to experiments in new shamanic practices.
Before Boas
The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Before Boas delves deeper into issues concerning anthropology’s academic origins to present a groundbreaking study that reveals how ethnography and ethnology originated during the eighteenth rather than the nineteenth century, developing parallel to anthropology, or the “natural history of man.” Han F. Vermeulen explores primary and secondary sources from Russia, Germany, Austria, the United States, the Netherlands, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, and Great Britain in tracing how “ethnography” originated as field research by Germ...
Food & Material Culture
Contains essays on food and material culture presented at the 2013 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.
Bewegliche Horizonte
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The Avars
"Though the book was first published in German in 1988, this English version includes many revisions and updates and will be the definitive English-language study of the Avar empire for years to come. It will be invaluable for those interested in medieval history or in the impact of nomadic steppe empires on sedentary civilizations." ― Choice The Avars arrived in Europe from the Central Asian steppes in the mid-sixth century CE and dominated much of Central and Eastern Europe for almost 250 years. Fierce warriors and canny power brokers, the Avars were more influential and durable than Attila's Huns, yet have remained hidden in history. Walter Pohl's epic narrative, translated into English...
Schamanismus als Herausforderung
Einmal im Jahr veranstaltet das Evangelische Tagungs- und Bildungszentrum Bad Alexandersbad in Kooperation mit dem Landeskirchlichen Beauftragten für religiöse und geistige Strömungen der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche in Bayern ein Symposium zu einem Thema aus der Weltanschauungsarbeit. Das Thema für das Symposium 2015 lautete „Schamanismus als Herausforderung“. Gefragt wurde: Was ist das, was hierzulande als „Schamanismus“ angeboten wird? Mit welcher Wirklichkeit haben wir Menschen es dabei zu tun? Welche Chancen und Gefahren sind zu erkennen? Wie können Pfarrerinnen und Pfarrer mit diesem Phänomen umgehen? Die in dieser Dokumentation gesammelten Beiträge stammen von Anett C. Oelschlägel, Gerhard Mayer, Bernd Rieken, Haringke Fugmann, Heiko Grünwedel und Klaus Raschzok.
Our Common Denominator
Since the politicization of anthropology in the 1970s, most anthropologists have been reluctant to approach the topic of universals—that is, phenomena that occur regularly in all known human societies. In this volume, Christoph Antweiler reasserts the importance of these cross-cultural commonalities for anthropological research and for life and co-existence beyond the academy. The question presented here is how anthropology can help us approach humanity in its entirety, understanding the world less as a globe, with an emphasis on differences, but as a planet, from a vantage point open to commonalities.
