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

The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art

Shamanism--the practice of entering a trance state to experience visions of a reality beyond the ordinary and...
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Author: Rebecca R. Stone
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The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art by Stone, Rebecca R.

The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art

€136,66

The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art

€136,66
Author: Rebecca R. Stone
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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 in both scholarly and popular literature, but few authors have linked it to another significant visual realm--art. In this pioneering study, Rebecca R. Stone considers how deep familiarity with, and profound respect for, the extra-ordinary visionary experiences of shamanism profoundly affected the artistic output of indigenous cultures in Central and South America before the European invasions of the sixteenth century.

Using ethnographic accounts of shamanic trance experiences, Stone defines a core set of trance vision characteristics, including enhanced senses, ego dissolution, bodily distortions, flying, spinning and undulating sensations, synaesthesia, and physical transformation from the human self into animal and other states of being. Stone then traces these visionary characteristics in ancient artworks from Costa Rica and Peru. She makes a convincing case that these works, especially those of the Moche, depict shamans in a trance state or else convey the perceptual experience of visions by creating deliberately chaotic and distorted conglomerations of partial, inverted, and incoherent images.



Author: Rebecca R. Stone
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 07/01/2011
Pages: 243
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.60w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780292726260

About the Author
REBECCA R. STONEStone is Associate Professor in the Art History Department and Faculty Curator of Art of the Ancient Americas in the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University. She has also published Seeing with New Eyes: Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Collection of Art of the Ancient Americas, Art of the Andes from Chavín to Inca, and To Weave for the Sun: Ancient Andean Textiles.


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