Shamans and Elders - Experience, Knowledge, and Power Among the Daur Mongols

Zusatztext 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. Klappentext This work 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. It looks at gender and ritual! female shamans and goddess worship! death and funeral rituals! the importance of old men and ancestors! and Daur notions of landscape within their direct experience and beyond. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Humphrey, Caroline Humphrey, Caroline Onon Humphrey, Urgunge Onon, Onon Urgunge
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.03.1996
• EAN: 9780198280682
• ISBN: 978-0-19-828068-2
• No. of pages: 410
• Series: Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology; Oxford Studies in Social and C; Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology; Oxford Studies in Social and C
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; RELIGION / Spirituality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, RELIGION / Cults, Mongolia, Spirituality & religious experience, Spirituality and religious experience, Contemporary non-Christian & para-Christian cults & sects