California Indian Shamanism

Author : Lowell John Bean
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Indian Shamanism written by Lowell John Bean and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles from ethnographers, a linguist, and Native Americans, all addressed to the topic of Native California shamanism in traditional times and in the present. A feast for the scholar or layman interested in the cross-cultural study of religion; in California Indians; or in the beginnings of art, music, and literature. Ken Hedges of the San Diego Museum of Man, for example, discusses the shamanistic aspects of California’s remarkable rock art; Craig Bates of the museum on Yosemite National Park writes of Sierra Miwok shamans in the 20th century; Dorothea Theodoratus and Wintu scholar and artist Frank LaPena present examples of shamanic art and poetry as it persists to the present day; Floyd Buckskin, an Ajumawi, discusses the conflict between New Age shamanism and traditional shamanism; and Jack Norton, a Hupa, discusses the shamanic tradition in northwestern California as it appears to a Native Californian. Seven of the papers presented at the 1990 Conference on Shamanism at California State University, Hayward.

Author : A. L. Kroeber
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Religion of the Indians of California written by A. L. Kroeber and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an account of the religion of the Indians of California. It describes the religion as very similar to that of savage and uncivilized races the world over. Like all such peoples, the California Indians were in an animistic state of mind, in which they attributed life, intelligence, and especially supernatural power, to virtually all living and lifeless things. They lacked no less the ideas and practices of shamanism, the universal accompaniment of animism: namely, the belief that certain men, through communication with the animate supernatural world, had the power to accomplish what was contrary to, or rather above, the events of daily ordinary experience, which latter in so far as they were distinguished from the happenings caused by supernatural agencies, were of natural, meaningless, and, as it were, accidental origin. As in most parts of the world, belief in shamanistic power was centered most strongly on disease and death, which among most tribes were not only believed to be dispellable but to be entirely caused by shamans. In common with the other American Indians, those of California made dancing, and with it always singing, a conspicuous part of nearly all their ceremonies that were of a public or tribal nature. They differed from almost all other tribes of North America by showing a much weaker development of ritualism, and symbolism shading into pictography, which constitute perhaps the most distinctive feature of the religion of the Americans as a whole.

Author : Michael Harrison
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Northern California Indian Shamans written by Michael Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Willard Zerbe Park
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shamanism in Western North America written by Willard Zerbe Park and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ruby Modesto
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not for Innocent Ears written by Ruby Modesto and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiography of an Indian "pul" or medicine woman, with a brief history of her tribe and five Cahuilla folktales.

Author : David S. Whitley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of the Shaman written by David S. Whitley and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whitley, an archaeologist specializing in the study of prehistoric art and religion, interprets the symbolism of California's ancient rock art, demonstrating that these pictographs were not created simply for artistic expression, but were deliberately intended to represent a relatively few number of specific messages. Color photographs depict such things as vision questing, sexuality, the mythic past, life crises, altered states of consciousness, and more.

Author : William S. Lyon
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Native American Shamanism written by William S. Lyon and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 1998-12-11 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entries identify leaders, shamans, and specific beliefs and practices of various tribes.

Author : Lowell John Bean
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Indian Shamanism written by Lowell John Bean and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles from ethnographers, a linguist, and Native Americans, all addressed to the topic of Native California shamanism in traditional times and in the present. A feast for the scholar or layman interested in the cross-cultural study of religion; in California Indians; or in the beginnings of art, music, and literature. Ken Hedges of the San Diego Museum of Man, for example, discusses the shamanistic aspects of California’s remarkable rock art; Craig Bates of the museum on Yosemite National Park writes of Sierra Miwok shamans in the 20th century; Dorothea Theodoratus and Wintu scholar and artist Frank LaPena present examples of shamanic art and poetry as it persists to the present day; Floyd Buckskin, an Ajumawi, discusses the conflict between New Age shamanism and traditional shamanism; and Jack Norton, a Hupa, discusses the shamanic tradition in northwestern California as it appears to a Native Californian. Seven of the papers presented at the 1990 Conference on Shamanism at California State University, Hayward.

Author : Alfred L. Kroeber
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Religion of the Indians of California written by Alfred L. Kroeber and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Alfred L. Kroebers' classic article on the religion of Native Californians. Subjects covered include, Shamanism, Public Ceremonies, Mythology And Beliefs, Special Characteristics Of Different Tribes, Ceremonial Structures And Paraphernalia, and Customary Observances By Individuals.

Author : Edgar E. Siskin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Washo Shamans and Peyotists written by Edgar E. Siskin and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: