Four Subfields Of Anthropology
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Spirits Captured in Stone
Author: Jay H. Bernstein
language: en
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Release Date: 1997
"This fascinating case study focuses on shamanism and the healing practices of the Taman, a formerly tribal society indigenous to the interior of Borneo. The Taman typically associate illness with an encounter with spirits that both seduce and torment a person in dreams or waking life. Rather than use medicines to counter the effect of these discomforting visitors, the shamans - called baliens - use stones that are said to contain the convergence of wild spirits that have come into being during the initiation ceremony".--P. 209.
A World of Relationships
Author: Sylvie Poirier
language: en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date: 2005-01-01
Drawing on her three years of field work in the Balgo Hills during the 1980s and on recent ethnographic literature, Poirier (anthropology, U. Laval, Quebec) explains dialectical aspects of Australian Aboriginal social and cosmological realities. She focuses on the relations among the ancestral order, the land, and human and non- human agencies. Ann