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Klappentext An important new way of viewing the prehistoric art of the Americas! The Jaguar Within demonstrates that understanding a work of art's connection with shamanic trance can lead to an appreciation of it as an extremely creative solution to the inherent challenge of giving material form to nonmaterial realities and states of being. "In sum, Stone argues convincingly that shamanic aesthetics de-emphasize the individual, but play up the authority and status of both artists and shamans as masters of complex and often deceptive (trickster-like) multiple perspectives. From Mesoamerican Chavin Vision Serpents with feline elements, to Peruvian Moche visionary scenes with feline-snake depictions, Stone skillfully reveals commonalities and variations of shamanic imaginations."--Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, Georgetown University, Religion Zusammenfassung An important new way of viewing the prehistoric art of the Americas, The Jaguar Within demonstrates that understanding a work of art’s connection with shamanic trance can lead to an appreciation of it as an extremely creative solution to the inherent challenge of giving material form to nonmaterial realities and states of being. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction 1: General Recurrent Themes in the Phenomenology of Visions; 2: The Common Perceptual Phenomena and Stages of the Visionary Experience; 3: Visions and Shamanizing: The Intermediary Role! Anomalousness! Control! and Balance; 4: Embodying the Shaman in Trance: Embracing Creative Ambiguity; 5: Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Costa Rican Art I: At the Human End and the Balance Point of the Flux Continuum; 6: Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Costa Rican Art II: Toward the Animal End and Beyond the Flux Continuum; 7: Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Central Andean Art I: Toward the Human End and the Balance Point of the Flux Continuum; 8: Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Central Andean Art II: Toward the Animal End and Beyond the Flux Continuum Conclusion Notes; Works Cited; Index ...
