Art, Shamanism and Animism

• Other Authors: Wallis, Robert J. (Editor), Carocci, Max (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Research & information: general; animism; totemism; analogism; art and architecture; mortuary practices; Neolithic Britain and Ireland; ethnographic analogy; Saami shamanism; animals; power animals; ritual creativity; Isogaisa; Papua New Guinea; relational ontology; onto-praxis; personhood; dividuality; gender; Catholic charismatic Christianity; charismatic space; shaman; material religion; materiality; image; Korea; ancestor veneration; animacy; materiality of stone; Andes; Quechua; extirpation of idolatry; funerary cult; Ancash; Cajatambo; archaeology; shamanism; ontology; Casas Grandes; horned-plumed serpent; American Puebloan Southwest; art; connections; fluidity; shapeshifting; spirit world; subversion; trance; Mesoamerica; art and archaeology; Indigenous ontology; relational theory; divination; spirit impersonation; material agency; Daur shamanism; social interface; ritual ceremony; embodiment of ancestral spirits; inter-human metamorphosis; shamanic landscape; n/a; museums; Anishinaabe peoples and language; pipes; treaties; rock art; New Animisms; dualism; multinatural; hunting; taming
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Art, shamanism, and animism are mutable, contested terms which, when brought together, present a highly charged package. Debates around these three terms continue to generate interest and strong opinions in the first decades of the twenty-first century. The editors recognise the urgency to explore t...