Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 302 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:
9783030211820
Content:
Intro -- Preface -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Note on Orthography -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: "… some subjective identification … which I failed to understand more deeply" -- Connective Cosmology and Mutable Ontology -- Mimesis and Metamorphosis -- Anthropocentrism and Anthropomorphism -- Interdisciplinarity in Khoisan Studies -- Synopsis of Book -- Outline of Chapters -- References -- Chapter 2: Therianthropes -- The San Spirit Realm -- The First Order and the Early Race -- Therianthropic Beings of the Second Order of Creation -- Ontological and Temporal Indeterminacy in the Two Orders of Existence -- References -- Chapter 3: Transformation in Myth -- Trickster: Shape-Shifter Par Excellence -- !Khwa: The Rain That Transforms -- Lion: "They Are People who Are Different" -- References -- Chapter 4: Therianthropes and Transformation in San Art -- Ancestral San Rock Art: Therianthropes -- Ancestral San Rock Art: Transformation -- Shamans or Hunters, Trance or Transformation? -- Contemporary San Easel Art: Therianthropes -- Contemporary San Easel Art: Transformation -- The Meaning Question -- References -- Chapter 5: Transformation in Ritual -- The Healing Dance: Trance, Tranceformation and Transformation -- Initiation Rites: Liminality and Transformation -- The Female Rite -- The Male Rite -- References -- Chapter 6: Animals in San Dance and Play: Between Mimesis and Metamorphosis -- Ludic Dancing, Myth and Storytelling -- References -- Chapter 7: Transformation and Hunting -- Tappings: "I Feel the Springbok Sensation" -- The Classic Hunt -- The Persistence Hunt -- Hunting Ritual and Hunting "Medicine" -- Animal Skins and Disguises -- Skin Clothing and Relational Ontology -- "Prosaic" Hunting? -- References -- Correction to: Human-Animal Relationships in San and Hunter-Gatherer Cosmology, Volume I -- Appendices.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030211813
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Guenther, Mathias, 1942 - Human-animal relationships in San and hunter-gatherer cosmoloy ; Volume 1: Therianthropes and transformation Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020 ISBN 9783030211813
Language:
English
Keywords:
Sozialanthropologie
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