Shamans of the lost world : a cognitive approach to the prehistoric religion of the Ohio Hopewell
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Shamans of the lost world : a cognitive approach to the prehistoric religion of the Ohio Hopewell
（Issues in eastern Woodlands archaeology / editors, Thomas E. Emerson and Timothy R. Pauketat）
AltaMira Press, c2009
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-250) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Shamans of the Lost World bridges the gap between recent work in the cognitive sciences and some of humankind's oldest religious expressions. In this detailed look at the prehistoric shamanism of the Ohio Hopewell, Romain uses cognitive science, archaeology, and ethnology to propose that the shamanic world view results from psychological mechanisms that have a basis in our cognitive evolutionary development. The discussions in this volume of the most current theories concerning how early peoples came to believe in spirits and gods, as well as how those theories help account for what we find in the archaeological record of the Hopewell, are of interest to archaeologists and cognitive scientists alike.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Theoretical Background and Methods
Chapter 3. Hopewell Shamans
Chapter 4. Hopewell Cosmology: Part I
Chapter 5. Hopewell Cosmology: Part II
Chapter 6. Roles of the Hopewell Shaman
Chapter 7. Ways of the Hopewell Shaman
Chapter 8. Afterword
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