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The archaeology of Shamanism
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ISBN: 0415252555 0415252547 9780415252546 9780415252553 9780203451700 9781134527656 9781134527694 9781134527700 Year: 2001 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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In this timely collection, Neil Price brings together recent archaeological thought on shamanism. Issues addressed include shamanic material culture, responses to dying and the dead, shamanism in the context of other belief systems such as totemism, shamanic soundscapes, and the use of ritual architecture. With case studies from the arctic Greenland to Africa and from Europe to Asia this work covers the Palaeolithic to the present day.


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The Viking way : magic and mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia
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ISBN: 9781842172605 1842172603 Year: 2017 Publisher: Oxford : Oxbow Books,

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Magic, sorcery and witchcraft are among the most common themes of the great medieval Icelandic sagas and poems, the problematic yet vital sources that provide our primary textual evidence for the Viking Age that they claim to describe. Yet despite the consistency of this picture, surprisingly little archaeological or historical research has been done to explore what this may really have meant to the men and women of the time. This book examines the evidence for Old Norse sorcery, looking at its meaning and function, practice and practitioners, and the complicated constructions of gender and sexual identity with which these were underpinned. Combining strong elements of eroticism and aggression, sorcery appears as a fundamental domain of women's power, linking them with the gods, the dead and the future. Their battle spells and combat rituals complement the men's physical acts of fighting, in a supernatural empowerment of the Viking way of life. What emerges is a fundamentally new image of the world in which the Vikings understood themselves to move, in which magic and its implications permeated every aspect of a society permanently geared for war.


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The Viking Way : Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia
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ISBN: 1785708023 178570804X 9781785708022 9781785708046 9781842172605 1842172603 Year: 2019 Publisher: Oxford : Oxbow Books,

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Magic, sorcery and witchcraft are among the most common themes of the great medieval Icelandic sagas and poems, the problematic yet vital sources that provide our primary textual evidence for the Viking Age that they claim to describe. Yet despite the consistency of this picture, surprisingly little archaeological or historical research has been done to explore what this may really have meant to the men and women of the time. This book examines the evidence for Old Norse sorcery, looking at its meaning and function, practice and practitioners, and the complicated constructions of gender and sexual identity with which these were underpinned. Combining strong elements of eroticism and aggression, sorcery appears as a fundamental domain of women's power, linking them with the gods, the dead and the future. Their battle spells and combat rituals complement the men's physical acts of fighting, in a supernatural empowerment of the Viking way of life. What emerges is a fundamentally new image of the world in which the Vikings understood themselves to move, in which magic and its implications permeated every aspect of a society permanently geared for war. --


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Les enfants du frêne et de l'orme : une histoire des Vikings
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ISBN: 2021326292 9782021326291 Year: 2022 Publisher: Paris : Editions du Seuil,

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Pendant près de trois siècles, des peuples venus de Scandinavie ont profondément bouleversé les régions du Nord, jusqu'aux rivages de l'Amérique et aux steppes asiatiques. Au-delà des actes réels de violence et de pillage, auxquels on les réduit bien souvent, ils remanièrent la carte politique et culturelle de l'Europe et inventèrent de nouvelles formes de commerce, d'économie, de peuplement et de conflictualité. S'appuyant sur de nombreuses sources, et en particulier sur les dernières découvertes archéologiques mais aussi sur les grands récits de la littérature norroise, Neil Price revisite la légende viking. Le récit qu'il tisse se déploie d'un bout à l'autre de la diaspora, depuis la région du Vinland sur la côte est du continent américain jusqu'à Constantinople et à l'Ouzbékistan, les contacts s'étendant même jusqu'à la lointaine Chine. Remontant jusqu'à l'Antiquité tardive des VIe, VIIe siècles et élargissant ainsi les frontières géographiques du monde viking, il nous livre une image infiniment plus complexe de cette société, organisée autour de la guerre maritime, de l'esclavage, et marquée par d'importantes migrations familiales et l'existence de communautés pirates. Mais aussi, et surtout, Neil Price nous invite à découvrir de l'intérieur la mentalité et l'univers spirituel des Scandinaves de l'époque. Rejetant les poncifs véhiculés depuis des siècles à leur sujet, il s'efforce de voir les Vikings comme eux-mêmes se voyaient, comme les descendants du premier couple d'êtres humains, nés de morceaux de bois flotté trouvés sur la plage, les enfants du frêne et de forme. Il nous rappelle aussi que le passé, à la fois familier et étranger, nous reste en partie inaccessible et mystérieux, malgré les découvertes qui modifient la compréhension que nous en avons. Un formidable ouvrage de synthèse qui transforme notre regard et dont on ressort étonnamment ému...


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The Viking way : religion and war in late iron age Scandinavia
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ISSN: 02841347 ISBN: 9150616269 Year: 2002 Publisher: Uppsala Uppsala University. Department of Archaeology and Ancient History

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Iron age --- Civilization --- Theses

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