In the years since publication of the first edition of this book, the field of HAS has exploded.
There are now more courses offered at more colleges and universities than ever before …

This article considers the recent reemergence of the category of animism in the
anthropological study of religion, a concept that has once again become fashionable after a …

Indigenous Religion Paradigm: Page 1 Indigenous Religion Paradigm: Re-interpreting Religious
Practices of Indigenous People 103 This paper proposes an indigenous religion paradigm as an …

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 …

Art and shamanism are often represented as timeless, universal features of human
experience, with an apparently immutable relationship. Shamanism is frequently held to …

Shamanism and animism have proven to be useful cross-cultural analytical tools for
anthropology, particularly in religious studies. However, both concepts root in reductionist …

In The Origins of Shamanism, Spirit Beliefs, and Religiosity, H. Sidky examines shamanism
as an ancient magico-religious, divinatory, medical, and psychotherapeutic tradition found in …

Rock art is addressed in this chapter as material and practice, both being historically
situated. By comparing two sets of rock art from north-central Chile, rock paintings and …

The polished stone objects known as 'wrist-guards' found in Early Bronze Age graves in
Britain and Continental Europe have proved difficult to interpret. Are they connected with …

Las ontologías son sistemas relacionales inconscientes que se producen y reproducen a
partir de un conjunto de prácticas y materialidades. A través de ellas, nociones claves a la …