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Wayward Shamans (University of California Press, 2013) Wayward Shamans<\/em> tells the story of an idea that humanity\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n (Description Source: University of California Press<\/a>)<\/p>\n Silvia Tom\u00e1\u0161kov\u00e1<\/strong> is the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UBC Okanagan. A native of a country no longer in existence \u2013 Czechoslovakia, Dr. Tom\u00e1\u0161kov\u00e1 came to Canada as a political refugee in the 1980\u2019s. She found her new home in academia, in the discipline of Anthropology. Dr. Tom\u00e1\u0161kov\u00e1 taught at Deep Springs College in California, the University of Texas, Austin, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A feminist anthropologist\/archaeologist with field and historical research in Eastern & Central Europe, Siberia, South Africa, Dr. Tom\u00e1\u0161kov\u00e1 is interested in knowledge production, particularly about places and spaces in the deep past, as alternatives to modernity. She received her BA from McGill University, MA from Yale University, and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p>\n https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2p94e73v<\/a><\/p>\n From the Publisher \u2013 University of California Press<\/a> Paper ISBN: 9780520275324 The\u00a0University of British Columbia Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project<\/em>\u00a0aims to display academically inspiring artwork in classrooms and other teaching areas of the university.<\/p>\n Artwork displayed as part of this project \u2013 including the covers of books and journals containing work written or edited by UBCO scholars and researchers \u2013 is intended to help enliven university teaching spaces, educate classroom users about the connections between research and teaching, and introduce members of the broader public to some of the research and scholarship carried out at UBCO.<\/p>\n If you know of other book or journal covers, or other academically inspiring artwork that is connected to work carried out by UBCO artists, scholars or researchers and that is consistent with UBCO\u2019s educational mission, please email your suggestions to\u00a0classroom.artwork@ubc.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n The\u00a0UBC Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project<\/em>\u00a0began in 2019 with support from the Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences. It is now a joint project of UBCO\u2019s Faculties and the Office of the Provost.<\/p>\n Artwork and other images that are a part of this project are displayed solely for educational purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wayward Shamans The Prehistory of an Idea (University of California Press, 2013) LIB 317 Wayward Shamans tells the story of an idea that humanity\u2019s first expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. 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\n<\/em><\/strong>The Prehistory of an Idea<\/em><\/p>\n
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\neBook ISBN: \u00a09780520955318<\/p>\n
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