Shamans and Elders : Experience, Knowledge, and Power among the Daur Mongols Paperback / softback
by Caroline (Reader in Asian Anthropology, University of Cambridge, and Fellow, Reader in Asi Humphrey, Urgunge (General Manager, Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, General Manager, Mongolia and Onon
Part of the Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:410 pages, 25 black and white photographs, line figures, maps, tables
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:28/03/1996
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- ISBN:9780198280682
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:410 pages, 25 black and white photographs, line figures, maps, tables
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:28/03/1996
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198280682
