1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786391403321

Autore

Tomášková Silvia

Titolo

Wayward Shamans : The Prehistory of an Idea / / Silvia Tomášková

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-520-95531-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

201.44

Soggetti

Shamans - Siberia - Russia (Federation)

Shamanism - Russia (Federation) - Siberia

Siberia (Russia) Religious life and customs

Siberia (Russia) Civilization

Siberia (Russia) Colonization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Discoveries Of An Imaginary Place -- 2. Strange Landscapes, Familiar Magic -- 3. People In A Land Before Time -- 4. The Invention Of Siberian Ethnology -- 5. Sex, Gender, And Encounters With Spirits -- 6. Changed Men And Changed Women -- 7. French Connections And The Spirits Of Prehistory -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliographic Note -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Wayward Shamans tells the story of an idea that humanity's first expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, the work follows the trajectory of European knowledge about the continent's eastern frontier. The ethnographic record left by German natural historians engaged in the Russian colonial expansion project in the 18th century includes a range of shamanic practitioners, varied by gender and age. Later accounts by exiled Russian revolutionaries noted transgendered shamans. This variation vanished, however, in the translation of shamanism into archaeology theory, where a male sorcerer emerged as the key agent of prehistoric art. More recent



efforts to provide a universal shamanic explanation for rock art via South Africa and neurobiology likewise gloss over historical evidence of diversity. By contrast this book argues for recognizing indeterminacy in the categories we use, and reopening them by recalling their complex history.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910800029003321

Autore

Zimmermann Vera (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Deutschland)

Titolo

Grenzenlos menschlich? : Tierethische Positionen bei Elias Canetti, Marlen Haushofer und Brigitte Kronauer / Vera Zimmermann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2021

ISBN

9783839456729

383945672X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Collana

Human-Animal Studies ; 28

Disciplina

001.09

Soggetti

Literatur; Elias Canetti; Marlen Haushofer; Brigitte Kronauer; Tierethik; Tier; Ethik; Human-animal Studies; Germanistik; Tierphilosophie; Kulturwissenschaft; Literature; Animal Ethics; Animal; Ethics; Human-Animal Studies; German Literature; Animal Philosophy; Cultural Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- 1 Einleitung -- 2 Begriffe und Konzepte -- 3 Schlachten oder streicheln? -- 4 Zwischen Verbundenheit und Abgrenzung -- 5 Die Perspektive wechseln und Alterität anerkennen -- 6 Fazit und Ausblick -- 7 Anhang

Sommario/riassunto

Der Umgang mit unseren Mitgeschöpfen stellt uns als Individuen sowie als Gesellschaft immer wieder vor elementare moralische Fragen: Welche Ernährungsform ist moralisch vertretbar? Wie viel Leid können wir ertragen, ignorieren oder verdrängen? Und was zählt das Leiden und Sterben nichtmenschlicher Tiere überhaupt? Für Antworten auf diese Fragen bietet sich die Literatur als Raum für Gedankenexperimente und Perspektivenwechsel an. Vera Zimmermann betrachtet die diskursiven und sprachkünstlerischen Möglichkeiten moderner und postmoderner Literatur anhand der Positionen von Elias



Canetti, Marlen Haushofer und Brigitte Kronauer, um tierethische Positionen sowie deren Begründungen darzustellen.