Anthropology. Антропология — 27 книг

Настоящая работа посвящена исследованию общих принципов взаимоотношений Китая с внешним миром в эпоху позднего средневековья. Работа состоит из трех частей: первой, вводной, в которой предпринята попытка систематизации традиционных китайских представлений о внешнем мире; второй, где анализируется конкретный материал в свете общих политических представлений, и третьей, посвященной тем сферам общественной жизни Тибета, которые находились за пределами действия китайской политической доктрины. Большое место в работе уделено анализу традиционной китайской политической терминологии и ее применению в конкретной дипломатической практике.

Настоящая работа посвящена исследованию общих принципов взаимоотношений Китая с внешним миром в эпоху позднего средневековья. Работа состоит из трех частей: первой, вводной, в…

Jeder hat schon einmal von heiligen Kühen, von Gurus, von Witwenverbrennung und den Tausenden Göttern im Hinduismus gehört. Bollywood-Filme sind Kult und indische Tanzgruppen touren mit großem Erfolg durch Europa. Aber wer weiß schon, dass jeder Inder hinter diesen bunten Darstellungen die jahrtausende alten hinduistischen Schriften erkennt. Und wer weiß, dass der Buddhismus aus dem Hinduismus hervorgegangen ist. "Hinduismus für Dummies" führt in diese so fremde Religion ein und hilft damit auch, das moderne Indien besser zu verstehen.

Jeder hat schon einmal von heiligen Kühen, von Gurus, von Witwenverbrennung und den Tausenden Göttern im Hinduismus gehört. Bollywood-Filme sind Kult und indische Tanzgruppen…

Shamanism has always been of great interest to anthropologists. More recently it has been "discovered" by westerners, especially New Age followers. This book breaks new ground by examining pristine shamanism in Greenland, among people contacted late by Western missionaries and settlers. On the basis of material only available in Danish, and presented herein English for the first time, the author questions Mircea Eliade's well-known definition of the shaman as the master of ecstasy and suggests that his role has to be seen as that of a master of spirits.
The ambivalent nature of the shaman and the spirit world in the tough Arctic environment is then contrasted with the more benign attitude to shamanism in the New Age movement. After presenting descriptions of their organizations and accounts by participants, the author critically analyses the role of neo-shamanic courses and concludes that it is doubtful to consider what is offered as shamanism.
Born in Copenhagen, Merete Demant Jakobsen has taught in Denmark, Britain, and Alaska. Having worked on shamanism in ethnography and literature for her Danish degrees, she completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford in anthropology. She is currently researching negative spiritual experiences at the Religious Experience Research Centre, Westminster College, Oxford.

Shamanism has always been of great interest to anthropologists. More recently it has been "discovered" by westerners, especially New Age followers. This book breaks new ground by…

For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. There is an enormous literature on shamanism, but no one has tried to understand why and how Western intellectual and popular culture became so fascinated with the topic. Behind fictional and non-fictional works on shamanism, Andrei A. Znamenski uncovers an exciting story that mirrors changing Western attitudes toward the primitive. The Beauty of the Primitive explores how shamanism, an obscure word introduced by the eighteenth-century German explorers of Siberia, entered Western humanities and social sciences, and has now become a powerful idiom used by nature and pagan communities to situate their spiritual quests and anti-modernity sentiments. The major characters of The Beauty of the Primitive are past and present Western scholars, writers, explorers, and spiritual seekers with a variety of views on shamanism. Moving from Enlightenment and Romantic writers and Russian exile ethnographers to the anthropology of Franz Boas to Mircea Eliade and Carlos Castaneda, Znamenski details how the shamanism idiom was gradually transplanted from Siberia to the Native American scene and beyond. He also looks into the circumstances that prompted scholars and writers at first to marginalize shamanism as a mental disorder and then to recast it as high spiritual wisdom in the 1960s and the 1970s. Linking the growing interest in shamanism to the rise of anti-modernism in Western culture and intellectual life, Znamenski examines the role that anthropology, psychology, environmentalism, and Native Americana have played in the emergence of neo-shamanism. He discusses the sources that inspire Western neo-shamans and seeks to explain why lately many of these spiritual seekers have increasingly moved away from non-Western tradition to European folklore. A work of intellectual discovery, The Beauty of the Primitive shows how scholars, writers, and spiritual seekers shape their writings and experiences to suit contemporary cultural, ideological, and spiritual needs. With its interdisciplinary approach and engaging style, it promises to be the definitive account of this neglected strand of intellectual history.

For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. There is an enormous literature on shamanism, but no one has tried to…

Автор пытается возглавить новый отряд магов. Получается это у него пока очень плохо. У всех учеников периодически возникают странные воспоминания о событиях, которых не было и не могло быть в мире обычного восприятия. Конфликты между Кастанедой и другими учениками все возрастают. И вдруг с помощью Ла Горды новый Нагваль вспоминает, что в связи с особой структурой своего энергетического тела – светящегося кокона – он не может быть их лидером. Пути их расходятся. С ним остается только Ла Горда. Они вместе уезжают в Лос-Анджелес, где занимаются совместными путешествиями в сновидении и в состоянии повышенного осознания пытаются вспомнить все то, что происходило с ними в годы ученичества.

Автор пытается возглавить новый отряд магов. Получается это у него пока очень плохо. У всех учеников периодически возникают странные воспоминания о событиях, которых не было и не…

Книга является первой попыткой охватить весь культурно-религиозный комплекс шаманизма и определить его место в общей истории религий. Автор пытается осмыслить и представить шаманизм именно с точки зрения историка религий.
Шаманизм - одна из архаических техник экстаза и одновременно мистика, магия и религия в широком понимании этого слова. Элиаде показывает шаманизм в различных исторических и культурных аспектах и дает краткую историю его формирования в Центральной и Северной Азии.
Однако главный акцент делается автором на раскрытии самого феномена шаманизма, анализе его идеологии, обсуждении его техник, символизма, мифологии.

Книга является первой попыткой охватить весь культурно-религиозный комплекс шаманизма и определить его место в общей истории религий. Автор пытается осмыслить и представить…

States of spirit possession, in which believers feel themselves to be ‘possessed’ by the deity and raised to a new plane of existence, are found in almost all known religions. From Dionysiac cults to Haitian voodoo, Christian and Sufi mysticism to shamanic ritual, the rapture and frenzy of ecstatic experience forms an iconic expression of faith in all its devastating power and unpredictability. Ecstatic Religion has, since its first appearance in 1971, become the classic investigative study of these puzzling phenomena. Exploring the social and political significance of spiritual ecstasy and possession, it considers the distinct types and functions of mystical experience—in particular, the differences between powerful male-dominated possession cults which reinforce established morality and power, and marginal, renegade ecstatics expressing forms of protest on behalf of the oppressed, especially women.

I.M.Lewis’s wide-ranging comparative study looks at the psychological, medical, aesthetic, religious and cultural aspects of possession, and covers themes including soul-loss, ecstatic trance, divination, erotic passion and exorcism. Probing the mysteries of spirit possession through the critical lens of anthropological and sociological theory, this fully revised and expanded Third Edition is of crucial importance for students of psychology, sociology, religious mysticism and shamanism.

I.M.Lewis, a former Professor of Anthropology and head of department at the London School of Economics, is the author of several works on anthropology and religion including Religion in Context (1996) and Blood and Bone (1994).

States of spirit possession, in which believers feel themselves to be ‘possessed’ by the deity and raised to a new plane of existence, are found in almost all known religions.…

'If religion generated everything that is essential in society, this is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.'

In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Émile Durkheim set himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity. He investigated what he considered to be the simplest form of documented religion - totemism among the Aborigines of Australia. Aboriginal religion was an avenue 'to yield an understanding of the religious nature of man, by showing us an essential and permanent aspect of humanity'. The need and capacity of men and women to relate socially lies at the heart of Durkheim's exploration, in which religion embodies the beliefs that shape our moral universe.

The Elementary Forms has been applauded and debated by sociologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, philosophers, and theologians, and continues to speak to new generations about the origin and nature of religion and society. This new, lightly abridged edition provides an excellent introduction to Durkheim's ideas.

'If religion generated everything that is essential in society, this is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.'

In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912),…

This study examines the re-emergence of Shamanism among the Buddhist peoples of Russia in the years immediately following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Drawing upon fieldwork conducted in the republics of Kalmykia, Buryatia, and Tuva, Fridman (a psychotherapist) describes how the practice of Shamanism relies upon bonds of kinship and a deep connection with nature and locale. The volume, which is not indexed, is based upon the author's dissertation (Brown U.)

This study examines the re-emergence of Shamanism among the Buddhist peoples of Russia in the years immediately following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Drawing upon fieldwork…

Монография продолжает серию работ по культурно-психологическим традициям народов Востока, подготовленных сотрудниками БИОН СО РАН. Особое внимание в работе уделяется вопросам соотношения религиозных, социокультурных и психологических традиций в экологической культуре центрально-азиатского региона, взаимодействия человека и природы, человека и культуры, природы и общества в формировании и историческом развитии экологических традиций народов Центральной Азии.

Книга адресована историкам, этнографам, культурологам, религиоведам и всем, кто интересуется религиозными представлениями тибетцев, тюркоязычных народов, касающимися мироздания.

Монография продолжает серию работ по культурно-психологическим традициям народов Востока, подготовленных сотрудниками БИОН СО РАН. Особое внимание в работе уделяется вопросам…

Focusing on language and media in Asian Russia, particularly in Buryat territories, Mixed Messages engages debates about the role of minority media in society, alternative visions of modernity, and the impact of media on everyday language use. Graber demonstrates that language and the production, circulation, and consumption of media are practices by which residents of the region perform and negotiate competing possible identities.

What languages should be used in newspapers, magazines, or radio and television broadcasts? Who should produce them? What kinds of publics are and are not possible through media? How exactly do discourses move into, out of, and through the media to affect everyday social practices? Mixed Messages addresses these questions through a rich ethnography of the Russian Federation's Buryat territories, a multilingual and multiethnic region on the Mongolian border with a complex relationship to both Europe and Asia.

Mixed Messages shows that belonging in Asian Russia is a dynamic process that one cannot capture analytically by using straightforward categories of ethnolinguistic identity.

Focusing on language and media in Asian Russia, particularly in Buryat territories, Mixed Messages engages debates about the role of minority media in society, alternative visions…

Following Habermas' claim that the discourse on modernity is characterised by a critique of reason that privileges aesthetic experience free from constraints of time and space and by a narrative of increasing rationality, an important point of departure for re-framing debates about theory and method in the study of religions is made available. In Religion and the Discourse on Modernity, Paul Tremlett argues that the aesthetic critique of modernity is constitutive of Marxist and post-modern thought and also of aspects of the phenomenology of religion and its critique of 'profane' existence.
He argues further that the Enlightenment promise of progressive rationality is constitutive of liberal and Marxist visions of modernity and the phenomenology of religion with its dream of global religious dialogue. This provides an opening for re-reading the likes of Otto, Eliade, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault, de Certeau, Derrida and Bourdieu and for a new vision of the study of religions.

Following Habermas' claim that the discourse on modernity is characterised by a critique of reason that privileges aesthetic experience free from constraints of time and space and…