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  • Amulets in Magical Practice

    par Jay Johnston ...
    Collections series Elements in Magic
    This Element takes as its remit the production and use of amulets. The focus will be on amulets with no, or minimal, textual content like those comprising found stone, semi-precious gem and/or animal body parts. That is a material form that is unaccompanied by directive textual inscription. The analysis considers this materiality to understand its context of use including ritual and metaphysical ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

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  • Religion Explained

    par Pascal Boyer ...
    Why are there religious beliefs in all cultures? Do they have features in common and why does religion persist in the face of science? Pascal Boyer shows how experimental findings in cognitive science, evolutionary biology and cultural anthropology are now providing precise answers to these general questions, and providing, for the first time, real answers to the question: Why do we believe? ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Lines

    A Brief History

    par Tim Ingold ...
    Collections series Routledge Classics
    What do walking, weaving, observing, storytelling, singing, drawing and writing have in common? The answer is that they all proceed along lines. In this extraordinary book Tim Ingold imagines a world in which everyone and everything consists of interwoven or interconnected lines and lays the foundations for a completely new discipline: the anthropological archaeology of the line.Ingold’s argument ... En savoir plus

    $50.99 CAD

  • The Well of Five Streams Essays on Celtic Paganism

    par Erynn Rowan Laurie ...
    Five streams flow from Manannán’s well in the Land of Promise; those who seek inspiration must drink from the well and the five streams. Finding this well requires dedication to the pursuit of wisdom. The book you hold contains the fruit of over twenty years of thought and deep exploration by this Celtic polytheist theologian. Much of the included material is out of print or hard to find, but ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Handbook of Contemporary Animism

    par Graham Harvey ...
    Collections series Acumen Handbooks
    The Handbook of Contemporary Animism brings together an international team of scholars to examine the full range of animist worldviews and practices. The volume opens with an examination of recent approaches to animism. This is followed by evaluations of ethnographic, cognitive, literary, performative, and material culture approaches, as well as advances in activist and indigenous thinking about ... En savoir plus

    $101.99 CAD

  • Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos, and the Realm of the Gods

    par David Lewis-Williams, David Pearce ...
    An exploration of how brain structure and cultural content interacted in the Neolithic period 10,000 years ago to produce unique life patterns and belief systems.What do the headless figures found in the famous paintings at Catalhoyuk in Turkey have in common with the monumental tombs at Newgrange and Knowth in Ireland? How can the concepts of "birth," "death," and "wild" cast light on the ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Nine Worlds of Seid-Magic

    Ecstasy and Neo-Shamanism in North European Paganism

    par Jenny Blain ...
    This accessible study of Northern European shamanistic practice, or seidr, explores the way in which the ancient Norse belief systems evoked in the Icelandic Sagas and Eddas have been rediscovered and reinvented by groups in Europe and North America. The book examines the phenomenon of altered consciousness and the interactions of seid-workers or shamanic practitioners with their spirit worlds. ... En savoir plus

    $92.99 CAD

  • Art and Agency

    An Anthropological Theory

    par Alfred Gell ...
    Alfred Gell puts forward a new anthropological theory of visual art, seen as a form of instrumental action: the making of things as a means of influencing the thoughts and actions of others. He argues that existing anthropological and aesthetic theories take an overwhelmingly passive point of view, and questions the criteria that accord art status only to a certain class of objects and not to ... En savoir plus

    $112.79 CAD

  • The Materiality of Magic

    An artifactual investigation into ritual practices and popular beliefs

    Modifié par Ceri Houlbrook, Natalie Armitage ...
    The subject of ‘magic’ has long been considered peripheral and sensationalist, the word itself having become something of an academic taboo. However, beliefs in magic and the rituals that surround them are extensive – as are their material manifestations – and to avoid them is to ignore a prevalent aspect of cultures worldwide, from prehistory to the present day. The Materiality of Magic addresses ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Queerying Occultures

    Essays from Enfolding Vol. 1

    par Phil Hine, Patricia MacCormack ...
    What is Queerying Occultures? 'Queerying' is a portmanteau word from 'Queer’ and 'Query'—classic Phil Hine word play. Occulture is another portmanteau word meaning 'Hidden Culture' (from ‘Occult’ and 'Culture').The occult is Queer. Historically. Intrinsically. Radically. Wonderfully Queer. Yet at times this essential fact can feel unacknowledged in wider Occulture dialogues. Addressing this, Phil ... En savoir plus

    $13.73 CAD

  • The Archaeology of Shamanism

    Modifié par Neil Price ...
    In this timely collection, Neil Price provides a general introduction to the archaeology of shamanism by bringing together recent archaeological thought on the subject. Blending theoretical discussion with detailed case studies, the issues addressed include shamanic material culture, responses to dying and the dead, shamanic soundscapes, the use of ritual architecture and shamanism in the context ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • Fictionalizing Anthropology

    Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human

    par Stuart J. McLean ...
    What might become of anthropology if it were to suspend its sometime claims to be a social science? What if it were to turn instead to exploring its affinities with art and literature as a mode of engaged creative practice carried forward in a world heterogeneously composed of humans and other than humans? Stuart McLean claims that anthropology stands to learn most from art and literature not as ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD