Sacred Sites, Sacred Places (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Carmichael, David L.; Schanche, Audhild; Reeves, Brian; Hubert, Jane

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the concept of `sacred' and what it means and implies to people in differing cultures. It looks at why people regard some parts of the land special and why this ascription remains constant in some cultures and changes in others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135633271
• Artikelnr.: 38246805

Autorenporträt

David L. Carmichael

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
David Carmichael
Jane Hubert
Brian Reeves; Chapter 1 Sacred beliefs and beliefs of sacredness
Jane Hubert; Chapter 2 Wintu sacred geography of northern California
Dorothea J. Theodoratus
Frank Lapena; Chapter 3 Sacred and secular neolithic landscapes in Ireland
Gabriel Cooney; Chapter 4 Sacred space in the culture of the Arctic regions
O. V. Ovsyannikov
N. M. Terebikhin
Katharine Judelson; Chapter 5 Sacred sites in Madagascar
Chantal Radimilahy; Chapter 6 Places of power
David L. Carmichael; Chapter 7 Sacred sites in the Bamenda Grassfields of Cameroon
Mary Maimo Mumah; Chapter 8 Bukusu sacred sites
Simiyu Wandibba; Chapter 9 Sacrificial places and their meaning in Saami society
Inga-Maria Mulk; Chapter 10 The Mijikenda kaya as a sacred site
H. W. Mutoro; Chapter 11 The perception and treatment of prehistoric and contemporary sacred places and Sites in Poland
Katarzyna Marciniak; Chapter 12 Islam on the Kenyan coast
George H. Okello Abungu; Chapter 13 A ceremony in the 'cave of idolatry'
Inés Sanmiguel
Ben Alberti; Chapter 14 At the mouth of the obsidian cave
Nicholas J. Saunders; Chapter 15 Sto
Gordon Mohs; Chapter 16 The spirits of the Chugach people of Alaska are at rest once again
John F. C. Johnson; Chapter 17 Waahi tapu
Hirini Matunga; Chapter 18 Principles and practice of site protection laws in Australia
David Ritchie; Chapter 19 When sacred land is sacred to three tribes
Robert Franklin
Pamela Bunte; Chapter 20 Tourism and the Bighorn Medicine Wheel
Nicole Price; Chapter 21 Ninaistákis - the Nitsitapii's sacred mountain
Reeves Brian;