Wayward Shamans: The Prehistory of an Idea
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 116, Heft 1, S. 233-233
ISSN: 1548-1433
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In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 116, Heft 1, S. 233-233
ISSN: 1548-1433
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Things that Go Bump in the Night (and Day) -- References -- Chapter 2: Anthropology and the Science of the Supernatural: Souls, Ancestors, Ghosts, and Spirits -- 2.1 What Is Anthropology? -- 2.2 Tylor and the Anthropology of Spirits -- 2.3 Boas, Malinowski, and the Critique of Tylor -- 2.4 The Golden Bough and the Anthropology of Magic -- 2.5 Psychedelics, Insanity, and the Shaman in Mid-Twentieth Century Anthropology -- 2.6 Spirit Possession During Late-Twentieth Century Anthropology -- 2.7 Brain Neurology during Late-Twentieth Century and Early Twenty-First Century Anthropology -- 2.8 The `Social Ghost´ of Early Twenty-First Century Anthropology -- 2.9 Our Path Forward: The Construction of a Scientific Framework for the Anthropology of Spirits -- References -- Chapter 3: An Observational Classification of Spirits -- 3.1 Defining (Various Kinds of) Spirits -- 3.2 The Ethnosemantics of Spirits -- 3.3 Those Who Work with the Spirits: Shaman, Priest, or Something Else -- 3.4 Ethnosemantics Case Study 1: Deifying the ``Ten Girls´´ in Vietnam -- 3.5 Ethnosemantics Case Study 2: Religious Specialists in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal -- 3.6 A Footnote on Embracing Ambiguity in Heuristic Definitions -- References -- Chapter 4: Spirits in the World -- 4.1 The Shamanic Universe -- 4.2 Climbing the World Tree using the Axis Mundi -- 4.3 The Spirits of Nature -- 4.3.1 Whirlwinds -- 4.3.2 Water, Lightning, Thunder, and Rain -- 4.3.3 Caves -- 4.3.4 Plant Spirits -- 4.4 The Spirit of Things -- 4.4.1 Noisemakers -- 4.4.2 Bundles -- 4.4.3 The Spirit of the House -- 4.4.4 Miscellaneous Objects -- 4.5 Building Ethnosemantics -- References -- Chapter 5: Spirits and Their Helpers -- 5.1 The Deep, Deep Origins of Shamanism -- 5.2 Spirits Transform the Shaman.