Search Results - "shamanism"

Roots of musicality music therapy and personal development / by Perret, Daniel Gilbert, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…The psycho-energetic approach to music -- The five elements in music -- Neuro-musical thresholds -- Teacher, musician, therapist or shaman?…”
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Lévi-Strauss on religion the structuring mind / by Tremlett, Paul-François

Table of Contents: “…Levi-Strauss, linguistics and structuralism -- Kinship as communication -- The illusion of totemism -- Myths without meaning -- Structuralism, shamanism, and material culture -- The structure of nostalgia -- Levi-Strauss and the study of religions.…”
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Lévi-Strauss on religion the structuring mind / by Tremlett, Paul-François

Table of Contents: “…Levi-Strauss, linguistics and structuralism -- Kinship as communication -- The illusion of totemism -- Myths without meaning -- Structuralism, shamanism, and material culture -- The structure of nostalgia -- Levi-Strauss and the study of religions.…”
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Kings of the forest the cultural resilience of Himalayan hunter-gatherers / by Fortier, Jana

Table of Contents: “…-- Forests as home -- Monkey's thigh is the shaman's meat -- Let's go to the forest and eat fruit -- Economy and society : a complex mix -- The children of God -- Cultural resilience : the big picture.…”
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Kings of the forest the cultural resilience of Himalayan hunter-gatherers / by Fortier, Jana

Table of Contents: “…-- Forests as home -- Monkey's thigh is the shaman's meat -- Let's go to the forest and eat fruit -- Economy and society : a complex mix -- The children of God -- Cultural resilience : the big picture.…”
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The making of Korean Christianity : Protestant encounters with Korean religions, 1876-1915 / by Oak, Sung-Deuk

Table of Contents: “…God: search for the Korean name for God, Han Nim -- Saviors: images of the cross and messianism -- Spirits: theories of shamanism and practice of exorcism -- Ancestors: Confucian and Christian memorial services -- Messages: Chinese literature and Korean translations -- Rituals: revivals and prayers.…”
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The making of Korean Christianity : Protestant encounters with Korean religions, 1876-1915 / by Oak, Sung-Deuk

Table of Contents: “…God: search for the Korean name for God, Han Nim -- Saviors: images of the cross and messianism -- Spirits: theories of shamanism and practice of exorcism -- Ancestors: Confucian and Christian memorial services -- Messages: Chinese literature and Korean translations -- Rituals: revivals and prayers.…”
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The alien within representations of the exotic in twentieth-century Japanese literature / by Morton, Leith

Table of Contents: “…Translating the alien: Tsubouchi shōyō and Shakespeare -- Naturalizing the alien: Yosano Akiko's revolution in verse -- The demon within: Yosano Akiko and motherhood -- The gothic novel : Izumi Kyōka and Tanizaki Jun'ichirō -- Gothic stylistics: Arishima Takeo and melodramatic excess -- Female shamans: Ōshiro Tatsuhiro and yuta -- History/fiction/identity: Ōshiro Tatsuhiro and the uncannny -- The alien without: Murakami Haruki and the Sydney Olympics.…”
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Ritual and remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes by Corr, Rachel

Table of Contents: “…Tales of Amazonia : personal narratives of healing by yumbos ; Shamanism ; Narrating the sacred landscape : religious ethnographies of the particular.…”
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The alien within representations of the exotic in twentieth-century Japanese literature / by Morton, Leith

Table of Contents: “…Translating the alien: Tsubouchi shōyō and Shakespeare -- Naturalizing the alien: Yosano Akiko's revolution in verse -- The demon within: Yosano Akiko and motherhood -- The gothic novel : Izumi Kyōka and Tanizaki Jun'ichirō -- Gothic stylistics: Arishima Takeo and melodramatic excess -- Female shamans: Ōshiro Tatsuhiro and yuta -- History/fiction/identity: Ōshiro Tatsuhiro and the uncannny -- The alien without: Murakami Haruki and the Sydney Olympics.…”
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Ritual and remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes by Corr, Rachel

Table of Contents: “…Tales of Amazonia : personal narratives of healing by yumbos ; Shamanism ; Narrating the sacred landscape : religious ethnographies of the particular.…”
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Himiko and Japan's elusive chiefdom of Yamatai archaeology, history, and mythology / by Kidder, J. Edward (Jonathan Edward)

Table of Contents: “…Ancient texts and sources -- The Wei zhi and the Wa people -- The initial problem and three centuries of compounding it -- Travel by land and water to neighboring countries -- Han commanderies, Korean kingdoms, and Wei China -- Japan in transition from Yayoi to Kofun -- The Izumo-Yamato contention -- Himiko, shamans, divination, and other magic -- Mirrors and Himiko's allotment -- The Japanese view of the Wei zhi years -- The endless search for Yamatai -- Makimuku and the location of Yamatai.…”
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Himiko and Japan's elusive chiefdom of Yamatai archaeology, history, and mythology / by Kidder, J. Edward (Jonathan Edward)

Table of Contents: “…Ancient texts and sources -- The Wei zhi and the Wa people -- The initial problem and three centuries of compounding it -- Travel by land and water to neighboring countries -- Han commanderies, Korean kingdoms, and Wei China -- Japan in transition from Yayoi to Kofun -- The Izumo-Yamato contention -- Himiko, shamans, divination, and other magic -- Mirrors and Himiko's allotment -- The Japanese view of the Wei zhi years -- The endless search for Yamatai -- Makimuku and the location of Yamatai.…”
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Thin places a pilgrimage home / by Armbrecht, Ann, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Growing rice -- Seeds -- Conserving the land -- The books -- The black box -- The Barun Festival -- The bamboo bridge -- Stories as boundaries -- Gold earrings -- Thin places -- The sacred spring -- Kelekpa the shaman -- Mapping power -- Lost souls -- Leaving -- Baiseti Thuma -- A far-off place -- Absence -- Manguhang -- Birth -- Sage Mountain -- Sacred stories -- Listening -- The healing stone -- The black bag -- Voices in the land -- The waterfall -- Bare feet on wet earth.…”
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Thin places a pilgrimage home / by Armbrecht, Ann, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Growing rice -- Seeds -- Conserving the land -- The books -- The black box -- The Barun Festival -- The bamboo bridge -- Stories as boundaries -- Gold earrings -- Thin places -- The sacred spring -- Kelekpa the shaman -- Mapping power -- Lost souls -- Leaving -- Baiseti Thuma -- A far-off place -- Absence -- Manguhang -- Birth -- Sage Mountain -- Sacred stories -- Listening -- The healing stone -- The black bag -- Voices in the land -- The waterfall -- Bare feet on wet earth.…”
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Curiosity, inquiry, and the geographical imagination by Gade, Daniel W., 1936-

Table of Contents: “…Curiosity about curiosity -- Exemplars of the inquisitive spirit -- Shamans and scholars : the questing self as archetype -- Epistemic curiosity and romantic sensibility in American geography -- Anima curiositas : Carl O. …”
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Curiosity, inquiry, and the geographical imagination by Gade, Daniel W., 1936-

Table of Contents: “…Curiosity about curiosity -- Exemplars of the inquisitive spirit -- Shamans and scholars : the questing self as archetype -- Epistemic curiosity and romantic sensibility in American geography -- Anima curiositas : Carl O. …”
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Matriarchal societies studies on indigenous cultures across the globe / by Göttner-Abendroth, Heide, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…A critical history of perspectives on matriarchy -- Matriarchy in Eastern India -- Matriarchal cults in Nepal -- Ancient queens realms, and group marriage in Tibet -- Matriarchal mountain peoples of China -- Women shamans in Korea -- The islands of Japan : women's cultures of the south and north -- "Alam Minangkabau" the world of the Minangkabau in Indonesia -- Matriarchal patterns in Melanesia -- Pacific Ocean cultures -- Matriarchal cultures in South America -- The spread of matriarchy to Central America -- North America : matriarchal immigrants from the South -- North America : at the cultural crossroads of South and North -- Matriarchy in India -- Ancient matriarchy in Central Africa -- Matriarchal queen-kingship in West Africa -- Matriarchal pastoral peoples in North Africa.…”
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Matriarchal societies studies on indigenous cultures across the globe / by Göttner-Abendroth, Heide, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…A critical history of perspectives on matriarchy -- Matriarchy in Eastern India -- Matriarchal cults in Nepal -- Ancient queens realms, and group marriage in Tibet -- Matriarchal mountain peoples of China -- Women shamans in Korea -- The islands of Japan : women's cultures of the south and north -- "Alam Minangkabau" the world of the Minangkabau in Indonesia -- Matriarchal patterns in Melanesia -- Pacific Ocean cultures -- Matriarchal cultures in South America -- The spread of matriarchy to Central America -- North America : matriarchal immigrants from the South -- North America : at the cultural crossroads of South and North -- Matriarchy in India -- Ancient matriarchy in Central Africa -- Matriarchal queen-kingship in West Africa -- Matriarchal pastoral peoples in North Africa.…”
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Sitings critical approaches to Korean geography /

Table of Contents: “…Nemeth -- Auspicious places in a mobile landscape: of shamans, shrines, and dreams / Laurel Kendall -- Kyeryong Mountain as Contested Place / Je-Hun Ryu -- Kyôngju namsan: heterotopia, place-agency, and historiographic leverage / Robert Oppenheim Margin -- The Seoul train station square and homeless shelters: thoughts on geographical history regarding welfare citizenship / Jesook Song -- Cyberspace and a space for gays in South Korea / Michael J. …”
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