this deep and complex work is full of vivid pictures of Daur life and belief

Alan J.K. Sanders, Asian Affairs, February 1997

Though valuable for its detailed ethnographic accounts of Daur shamanism and culture, the book is vastly more than a straightforward ethnography ... an engrossing journey of interpretation through the ideas and recollections of a manifold, challenging "Other", on which readers are continuously challenged to reflect upon and mitigate for themselves.

Mark Bender, Central Asia

Shamans and Elders is a major study of Mongolian shamanism and society, past and present. It presents a wealth of new information, and offers a fresh understanding of the widespread phenomenon of shamanism. This unique and detailed analysis of a fascinating subject combines a discussion of Urgunge Onon's memories of shamanism with Caroline Humphrey's text- and field-based analytical knowledge of Central and North Asian shamanism. It covers among other things: notions of gender in Mongolian society, including male and female traditions in ritual, female shamans, and goddess worship; attitudes to death, and funeral rituals; the importance of old men and of ancestors; and Daur notions of landscape within their direct experience (the importance of the sky, of the mountains, of the forest, rivers, etc.) and beyond. In covering these diverse areas, the authors depart from the general cultural models usually offered in discussions of shamanism, providing a new vision of 'shamanism' as made up of fragmentary, non-formularized parts. It presents much-needed insight on a little-known world, and points to an original new way of doing anthropology.
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Shamans and Elders is a ground-breaking study of Mongolian shamanism and society, past and present. Lavishly illustrated and containing a wealth of new information, it presents a fresh understanding of the widespread phenomenon of shamanism. Caroline Humphrey and Urgunge Onon offer much-needed insight on a little-known world, and point the way to a new method of doing anthropology.
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this deep and complex work is full of vivid pictures of Daur life and belief
`this deep and complex work is full of vivid pictures of Daur life and belief' Alan J.K. Sanders, Asian Affairs, February 1997 `Though valuable for its detailed ethnographic accounts of Daur shamanism and culture, the book is vastly more than a straightforward ethnography ... an engrossing journey of interpretation through the ideas and recollections of a manifold, challenging "Other", on which readers are continuously challenged to reflect upon and mitigate for themselves.' Mark Bender, Central Asia
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198280682
Publisert
1996
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
636 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
410