An important new way of viewing the prehistoric art of the Americas, The Jaguar Within demonstrates that understanding a work of artâ s connection with shamanic trance can lead to an appreciation of it as an extremely creative solution to the inherent challenge of giving material form to nonmaterial realities and states of being.
An important new way of viewing the prehistoric art of the Americas, The Jaguar Within demonstrates that understanding a work of artâ s connection with shamanic trance can lead to an appreciation of it as an extremely creative solution to the inherent challenge of giving material form to nonmaterial realities and states of being.
Rebecca R. Stone was a Masse-Martin/NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities (2010–2014), a professor in the Art History Department, and Faculty Curator of Art of the Ancient Americas in the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University. She has published one other book, Art of the Andes from Chavín to Inca, as well as one online catalogue and two museum catalogues.
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgments * Introduction * Chapter 1. General Recurrent Themes in the Phenomenology of Visions * Chapter 2. The Common Perceptual Phenomena and Stages of the Visionary Experience * Chapter 3. Visions and Shamanizing: The Intermediary Role, Anomalousness, Control, and Balance * Chapter 4. Embodying the Shaman in Trance: Embracing Creative Ambiguity * Chapter 5. Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Costa Rican Art I: At the Human End and the Balance Point of the Flux Continuum * Chapter 6. Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Costa Rican Art II: Toward the Animal End and Beyond the Flux Continuum * Chapter 7. Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Central Andean Art I: Toward the Human End and the Balance Point of the Flux Continuum * Chapter 8. Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Central Andean Art II: Toward the Animal End and Beyond the Flux Continuum * Conclusion * Notes * Works Cited * Index
* Acknowledgments * Introduction * Chapter 1. General Recurrent Themes in the Phenomenology of Visions * Chapter 2. The Common Perceptual Phenomena and Stages of the Visionary Experience * Chapter 3. Visions and Shamanizing: The Intermediary Role, Anomalousness, Control, and Balance * Chapter 4. Embodying the Shaman in Trance: Embracing Creative Ambiguity * Chapter 5. Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Costa Rican Art I: At the Human End and the Balance Point of the Flux Continuum * Chapter 6. Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Costa Rican Art II: Toward the Animal End and Beyond the Flux Continuum * Chapter 7. Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Central Andean Art I: Toward the Human End and the Balance Point of the Flux Continuum * Chapter 8. Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Central Andean Art II: Toward the Animal End and Beyond the Flux Continuum * Conclusion * Notes * Works Cited * Index
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