The Jaguar Within : : Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art / / Rebecca R. Stone.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Stone, Rebecca R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (243 p.)

Shamanism—the practice of entering a trance state to experience visions of a reality beyond the ordinary and to gain esoteric knowledge—has been an important part of life for indigenous societies throughout the Americas from prehistoric times until the present. Much has been written about shamanism...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 General Recurrent Themes in the Phenomenology of Visions
• Chapter 2 The Common Perceptual Phenomena and Stages of the Visionary Experience
• Chapter 3 Visions and Shamanizing: The Intermediary Role, Anomalousness, Control, and Balance
• Chapter 4 Embodying the Shaman in Trance: Embracing Creative Ambiguity
• Chapter 5 Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Costa Rican Art I: At the Human End and the Balance Point of the Flux Continuum
• Chapter 6 Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Costa Rican Art II: Toward the Animal End and Beyond the Flux Continuum
• Chapter 7 Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Central Andean Art I: Toward the Human End and the Balance Point of the Flux Continuum
• Chapter 8 Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Central Andean Art II: Toward the Animal End and Beyond the Flux Continuum
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index