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  • The Art and Archaeology of Human Engagements with Birds of Prey

    From Prehistory to the Present

    Edited by Dr Robert J. Wallis ...
    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 ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Shamans/Neo-Shamans

    Ecstasies, Alternative Archaeologies and Contemporary Pagans

    by Robert J. Wallis ...
    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 ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Shamanism

    by Graham Harvey, Robert J. Wallis ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series
    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 ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • The A to Z of Shamanism

    by Graham Harvey, Robert J. Wallis ...
    Series series The A to Z Guide Series
    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 ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • The Archaeology of Shamanism

    Edited by Neil Price ...
    In this timely collection, Neil Price provides a general introduction to the archaeology of shamanism by bringing together recent archaeological thought on the subject. Blending theoretical discussion with detailed case studies, the issues addressed include shamanic material culture, responses to dying and the dead, shamanic soundscapes, the use of ritual architecture and shamanism in the context ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Sculpting the Middle Class

    History, Masculinity and the Amar Chitra Katha

    by Deepa Sreenivas ...
    This book is an analysis of the Amar Chitra Katha genre, historical comic-books that capture and promote a middle class masculine identity, as culture became the new site for right-wing hegemonic politics in India over the last 4 decades of the 20th century. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The World's Religions: The Study of Religion, Traditional and New Religion

    Edited by Peter Clarke, Stewart Sutherland ...
    Examines the `primitive' (traditional) non -mainstream religion and also 20th century sects such as the Moonies and Scientology. Looks at the `nature' of religion - the general philosophical issues. Written by international specialists. ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Anthropology and Religion

    What We Know, Think, and Question

    by Robert L. Winzeler ...
    Drawing from ethnographic examples found throughout the world, this revised and updated text offers an introduction to what anthropologists know or think about religion, how they have studied it, and how they have interpreted or explained it since the late nineteenth century. Robert Winzeler’s balanced consideration of classic topics, basic concepts, and new developments in the anthropological ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Orality: the Quest for Meanings

    by Zothanchhingi Khiangte ...
    This collection assembles significant research papers on the concept of orality, theoretical approaches, and oral traditions juxtaposed with writing, culture, and folklore. Many of the essays also deal with issues of gender in oral cultures like those of Northeast India. The collection serves as an introduction to the varied ways in which the analysis of oral traditions has revitalized the quest ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World

    Edited by Benjamin S. Arbuckle, Sue Ann McCarty ...
    Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World explores the current trends in the social archaeology of human-animal relationships, focusing on the ways in which animals are used to structure, create, support, and even deconstruct social inequalities.The authors provide a global range of case studies from both New and Old World archaeology—a royal Aztec dog burial, the monumental horse tombs of ... Read more

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  • The Triumph of the Moon:A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft

    A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft

    by Ronald Hutton ...
    Ronald Hutton is known for his colourful and provocative writings on original subjects. This work is no exception: for the first full-scale scholarly study of the only religion England has ever given the world; that of modern pagan witchcraft, which has now spread from English shores across four continents. Hutton examines the nature of that religion and its development, and offers a microhistory ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Way of the Shaman

    by Michael Harner ...

    $14.99 USD

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