Shamans of the Lost World

A Cognitive Approach to the Prehistoric Religion of the Ohio Hopewell

William F. Romain (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

270 Seiten

2011
Altamira Press (Verlag)
978-0-7591-1906-2 (ISBN)

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Shamans of the Lost World examines the archaeological evidence of Hopewell peoples to deepen our understanding of their practice of shamanism.

Shamans of the Lost World bridges the gap between recent work in the cognitive sciences and some of humankind's oldest religious expressions. In this detailed look at the prehistoric shamanism of the Ohio Hopewell, Romain uses cognitive science, archaeology, and ethnology to propose that the shamanic world view results from psychological mechanisms that have a basis in our cognitive evolutionary development. The discussions in this volume of the most current theories concerning how early peoples came to believe in spirits and gods, as well as how those theories help account for what we find in the archaeological record of the Hopewell, are of interest to archaeologists and cognitive scientists alike.

William F. Romain is a research associate at Ohio State University and author of Mysteries of the Hopewell: Astronomers, Geometers, and Magicians of the Eastern Woodland.

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Theoretical Background and Methods
Chapter 3. Hopewell Shamans
Chapter 4. Hopewell Cosmology: Part I
Chapter 5. Hopewell Cosmology: Part II
Chapter 6. Roles of the Hopewell Shaman
Chapter 7. Ways of the Hopewell Shaman
Chapter 8. Afterword

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.1.2012
Reihe/Serie	Issues in Eastern Woodlands Archaeology
Verlagsort	California
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 232 mm
Gewicht	435 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7591-1906-6 / 0759119066
ISBN-13	978-0-7591-1906-2 / 9780759119062
Zustand	Neuware