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Author : Dimitri Tsintjilonis
Release : 2005
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Book Synopsis The Flow of Life in Buntao' by : Dimitri Tsintjilonis
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Author : Stephen Houston
Release : 2014-03-25
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis The Life Within by : Stephen Houston
Download or read book The Life Within written by Stephen Houston. This book was released on 2014-03-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully written and illustrated, The Life Within is the first full study of the vitality and materiality of Classic Maya art and writing and the quest for transcendence and immortality.
Author : Magnus Fiskesjö
Release : 2021-08-13
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Stories from an Ancient Land by : Magnus Fiskesjö
Download or read book Stories from an Ancient Land written by Magnus Fiskesjö. This book was released on 2021-08-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Stories from an Ancient Land".
Author : Kathryn Rountree
Release : 2012-05-23
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Archaeology of Spiritualities by : Kathryn Rountree
Download or read book Archaeology of Spiritualities written by Kathryn Rountree. This book was released on 2012-05-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeology of Spiritualties provides a fresh exploration of the interface between archaeology and religion/spirituality. Archaeological approaches to the study of religion have typically and often unconsciously, drawn on western paradigms, especially Judaeo-Christian (mono) theistic frameworks and academic rationalisations. Archaeologists have rarely reflected on how these approaches have framed and constrained their choices of methodologies, research questions, hypotheses, definitions, interpretations and analyses and have neglected an important dimension of religion: the human experience of the numinous - the power, presence or experience of the supernatural. Within the religions of many of the world’s peoples, sacred experiences – particularly in relation to sacred landscapes and beings connected with those landscapes – are often given greater emphasis, while doctrine and beliefs are relatively less important. Archaeology of Spiritualities asks how such experiences might be discerned in the archaeological record; how do we recognize and investigate ‘other’ forms of religious or spiritual experience in the remains of the past?. The volume opens up a space to explore critically and reflexively the encounter between archaeology and diverse cultural expressions of spirituality. It showcases experiential and experimental methodologies in this area of the discipline, an unconventional approach within the archaeology of religion. Thus Archaeology of Spiritualities offers a unique, timely and innovative contribution, one that is also challenging and stimulating. It is a great resource to archaeologists, historians, religious scholars and others interested in cultural and religious heritage.
Author : Kaj Arhem
Release : 2015-11-19
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Animism in Southeast Asia by : Kaj Arhem
Download or read book Animism in Southeast Asia written by Kaj Arhem. This book was released on 2015-11-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animism refers to ontologies or worldviews which assign agency and personhood to human and non-human beings alike. Recent years have seen a revival of this concept in anthropology, where it is now discussed as an alternative to modern-Western naturalistic notions of human-environment relations. Based on original fieldwork, this book presents a number of case studies of animism from insular and peninsular Southeast Asia and offers a comprehensive overview of the phenomenon – its diversity and underlying commonalities and its resilience in the face of powerful forces of change. Critically engaging with the current standard notion of animism, based on hunter-gatherer and horticulturalist societies in other regions, it examines the roles of life forces, souls and spirits in local cosmologies and indigenous religion. It proposes an expansion of the concept to societies featuring mixed farming, sacrifice and hierarchy and explores the question of how non-human agents are created through acts of attention and communication, touching upon the relationship between animist ontologies, world religion, and the state. Shedding new light on Southeast Asian religious ethnographic research, the book is a significant contribution to anthropological theory and the revitalization of the concept of animism in the humanities and social sciences.
