Inicio > Humanidades > Historia > Shamanism
Shamanism

Shamanism

Gary Edson

44,18 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
McFarland and Company, Inc.
Año de edición:
2014
Materia
Historia
ISBN:
9780786495474
44,18 €
IVA incluido
Disponible

Selecciona una librería:

  • Librería Samer Atenea
  • Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
  • Kálamo Books
  • Librería Perelló (Valencia)
  • Librería Elías (Asturias)
  • Donde los libros
  • Librería Kolima (Madrid)
  • Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Sobre IBD

The ancient practice of shamanism touches many cultures and spiritual philosophies. This book offers an in-depth look at the beliefs and practices centered on the shaman, a person believed to have powers to heal and communicate with the spirit world. It explores shamanism and its associated myths, artifacts, and legends as a communally endorsed acknowledgment of the supernatural or spirit world that evolved in the Neolithic Period and continues to appeal today. The work is heavily illustrated, featuring more than 90 of the author’s drawings of masks, fetishes, carvings and ongon, and 40 rare photographs of shamans, medicine men and women, and healers.

Artículos relacionados

  • Raising Freedom's Banner
    Paul Harris
    World wide history of peaceful street demonstrations from their earliest beginning in eighteenth century England to their use throughout the world in the twenty-first century. Describes why some demonstration movements succeeded and others failed. Contrasts demonstrations within the law with civil disobedience demonstrations. Describes Peterloo, the Chartists, the Suffragettes,...
    Disponible

    23,59 €

  • Waipi’o Valley
    Jeffrey L. Gross
    Waipi’o Valley: A Polynesian Journey from Eden to Eden recounts the remarkable migrations of the Polynesians across a third of the circumference of the earth. Their amazing journey began from Kalana i Hau’ola, the biblical “Garden of Eden” located along the shore of the Persian Gulf, extended to the Indus River Valley of ancient Vedic India, to Egypt where some ancestors of the...
  • Floralia
    June Rainsford Butler
    A century characterized by a growing interest in science, the opportunity for travel, and leisure for gardening furnishes the setting for Butler’s book. The rise of landscape gardening in England is traced, and the origin and history of its most famous gardens are given. The close relation between England and America in the field of horticulture is also discussed.Originally pub...
    Disponible

    61,20 €

  • President Wilson’s Addresses
    Woodrow Wilson
    'These addresses of President Woodrow Wilson are almost entirely concerned with political affairs, and more specifically with defining Americanism. Yet they also show that even as he moved from academia to the heights of politics, Wilson retained something of the teacher’s interest in showing the relation between specific instances and the general forms of thought or action of ...
  • The Story of my Life
    John Albert Macy
    The Story of My Life, is Helen Keller’s autobiography detailing her early life, especially her experiences with Anne Sullivan. The book is dedicated to inventor Alexander Graham Bell. The dedication reads, 'To ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Who has taught the deaf to speak and enabled the listening ear to hear speech from the Atlantic to the Rockies, I dedicate this Story of My Life.' ...
  • The Story of My Life Vol. 6 Spanish Passions
    Giacomo Casanova
    Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life), is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women that his name is now synonymous with 'wom...

Otros libros del autor

  • Culture and Human Thought
    Gary Edson
    Individuals often view 'culture' as activities beyond their interests, associating the concept with exclusivity or high art. To be cultured is often synonymous with engaging in physical expressions of art, like opera, a classical music concert, a museum exhibit or a theater performance. While culture does indeed extend to all these things, it is the internal processes of mem...
    Disponible

    57,58 €

  • Museum Ethics in Practice
    Gary Edson
    This volume is a guide to the difficult ethical questions museums work entails. While promoting the value of ethical theory and practice in museums, Edson tackles several key controversies and also corrects a number of prevailing misconceptions about museum ethics, such as the difference between social morals and professional ethics as they relate to the museum context.Drawing ...
    Disponible

    89,60 €

  • Museum Ethics in Practice
    Gary Edson
    This volume is a clear and practical guide to the difficult ethical questions museums work entails. Promoting the value of ethical theory and practice in museums, Edson tackles a number of key questions and also corrects some of the prevailing misconceptions about museum ethics, such as the difference between social morals and professional ethics as they relate to the museum co...
  • Mysticism and Alchemy through the Ages
    Gary Edson
    An in-depth look into the foundations of mysticism and alchemy, this book describes both physical and spiritual aspects of the various theories and practices of transformation, with attention to the beliefs of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sufism, Tantrism, Taoism and Yoga. The connection between early mystical pursuits and the development of alchemy from...
    Disponible

    51,60 €

  • Masks and Masking
    Gary Edson
    For at least 20,000 years, masking has been a mark of cultural evolution and an indication of magical-religious sophistication in society. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the mask as a powerful cultural phenomenon--a means by which human groupings attempted to communicate their dignity and sense of purpose, as well as establish a continuum between the n...
    Disponible

    51,47 €

  • Museum Ethics
    Gary Edson
    Museum Ethics considers the theoretical and practical elements of the philosophy of conduct in relation to critical contemporary issues and museums. ...