Shamanism and Traditional Beliefs

I Shamanism and Traditional Belief behandler bidragydere fra bl.a. antropologi og arkæologi de kosmologiske ideer om forholdet mellem forskellige verdener, som kommer til udtryk i shamanisme, drømme, lege og arkæologiske levn fra arktisk Nordamerika til Sibirien og Mongoliet.

Indholdsfortegnelse

Torben A. Vestergaard: Introduction

Bernard Saladin d'Anglure: Erotic Dreams, Mystical Kinship and Shamanism

Patricia D. Sutherland: Bear Imagery in Palaeo-Eskimo Art

Jarich G. Oosten: Ritual Play at an Inuit Winter Feast

Ulla Odgaard: Palaeo-Eskimoic Shamanism

Birgitte Sonne: Sources of Greenlandic Shamanism: survey and ethnohistorical implications

Katherine Swancutt: Sources of Charisma: ritual, household knowledge and inspiration in Mongolia

Rane Willerslev: The Hunter as a Human "Kind": hunting and shamanism among the Upper Kolyma Yukaghirs of Siberia

Anne Brimnes: The Seal Woman Tradition in the Faroe Islands - past and present

Adriënne Heijnen: Dream Sharing in Contemporary Iceland: an anthropological study of tradition in modern society

Dorete Bloch: Faroese Pilot Whaling: conditions, practice and superstition

Annette Høst: Exploring Seidhr: a practical study of the seidhr ritual