History of Popular Culture & Cultural Anthropology: FALL 2009
Shamans Class' research project
Cultural anthropology.
Summer 2009.
The Art Institute of Salt Lake City, Utah.
Instructor:
Lolita Nikolova, PhD
Created: 6-27-09.
Last updated: 9-27-09.
Links:
The Art Institutes
International Institute of Anthropology
iTune lecture on archaeology and art by Douglass W. Bailey
Mitopencourseware (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Teachers' resources
http://www.iianthropology.org/anthteachers_resources
Links to project by students from the Art Institute of Salt Lake City, Utah:
Students' research project
Swaziland and Switzerland
ARCHAEOLOGY

Earliest known shaman reveals tool of the trade
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026814.900-earliest-known-shaman-reveals-tool-of-the-trade.html

China's mummy mystery
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=350555

ARTICLES online

Acculturated Topographical Effects of Shamanic Trance Consciousness in Archaic and Medieval
Sacred Landscape,
by Paul Devereux. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 7, 1, 23-37 (1993)

Encounters with forces of pepo: Shamanism and healing in East-Africa, by Jessica Erdtsieck. Tanzanet
Journal, 1(2), 1-10 (2001). (
.pdf)

Shamanism articles
http://www.utexas.edu/courses/sami/diehtu/siida/shaman.htm

The Staff and the Song. Using the Old Nordic Seidr in Modern Shamanism, by Annette Høst
http://www.shamanism.dk/Artikel%20-%20THE%20STAFF%20AND%20THE%20SONG.htm

BOOKS [NOVELS] on SHAMANS:

The Shaman Sings (Charlie Moon Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback), by James D. Doss. Mass Market
Paperback: 272 pages. Publisher: Minotaur Books (August 28, 2007). Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312947739. ISBN-13: 978-0312947736
      amazon.com ($3.16)
  

BOOKS [RESEARCH] ON SHAMANS AND SUPERNATURAL:

Shamanism: A Reader , by Graham Harvey. Paperback: 480 pages. Publisher: Routledge (November 8, 2002).
Language: English. ISBN-10: 0415253306. ISBN-13: 978-0415253307
      
amazon.com
      booksgoogle.com

Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society, by James Boyle.
Paperback: 288 pages. Publisher: Harvard University Press (October 30, 1997).
Language: English. ISBN-10: 0674805232. ISBN-13: 978-0674805231
     amazon.com ($18.88)
     booksgoogle.com

Shamans through Time, by Jeremy Narby and Francis Huxley. Paperback: 336 pages. Publisher: Tarcher
(September 9, 2004). Language: English. ISBN-10: 1585423629. ISBN-13: 978-1585423620
Amazon.com: $8.44

Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind,  by Graham Hancock. Hardcover: 720
pages. Publisher: The Disinformation Company (September 1, 2006). Language: English. ISBN-10: 1932857400
ISBN-13: 978-1932857405.
Amazon.com: $17.50 (new), $ 6.69 (used)
   
  booksgoogle.com
     About the author at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Hancock

The Cosmic Serpent, by Jeremy Narby. Paperback: 272 pages. Publisher: Tarcher (April 5, 1999). Language:
English. ISBN-10: 0874779642. ISBN-13: 978-0874779646
Amazon.com: $8.65
     About the book at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cosmic_Serpent
     Compilation notes at http://csp.org/chrestomathy/cosmic_serpent.html

The Shaman: Patterns of Religious Healing Among the Ojibway Indians,  by John A. Grim. Reading level:
Young Adult. Paperback: 272 pages. Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press (January 1988). Language: English
ISBN-10: 0806121068. ISBN-13: 978-0806121062
      
amazon.com ($9.95)
      
booksgoogle.com

When Santa Was A Shaman: Ancient Origins of Santa Claus & the Christmas Tree (Paperback), by Tony
van Renterghem. Paperback: 208 pages. Publisher: Llewellyn Publications; 1st edition (August 1, 1995)
Language: English. ISBN-10: 156718765X. ISBN-13: 978-1567187656
      
amazon.com ($41.00/$2.50


BLOG

About Ana (with links)
http://www.thehollowbone.com/ana.html

Mythology Blog: Between Old and New Moons
http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/mythology-blog-between-old-and-new-moons/posts/tag/the+cosmic+mysteries/

Shamanic lessons from the movie Ratatouille
http://shamanicshift.gaia.com/blog/2008/5/shamanic_lessons_from_the_movie_ratatouille

BRIDGING TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND SCIENCE: Research projects

The Cosmic serpent project sponsored by the National Science Foundation
http://cosmicserpent.org

INTERVIEWS

with Jeremy Narby:
http://deoxy.org/narbystew.htm
http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v19n1/v19n1-pg30.pdf

JOURNAL

Shaman's Drum
http://shamansdrum.org/

MOVIES & ANIMATIONS

Shaman King (2003) (animation)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367409/

Shaman: Ritual Live (2005)
amazon.com

Further Proof Shamans Are Overpowered
http://www.sk-gaming.com/video/104755-Further_Proof_Shamans_Are_Overpowered

The Way of the Shaman (1989)

MUSIC

Shaman dancing
http://www.davidantonyclark.com/shamandancing.htm

Shaman (Group)
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1875

Shaman's dream music collective
http://www.shamansdreammusic.com/

POP SUBCULTURE

Practical courses and societies

The Cosmology of Andean Shaman
http://www.swc.edu/documents/CosmologyAndeanShamanP2.pdf

Society for shamanic practitioners
http://www.shamansociety.org/what.html

Shaman King
http://www.toysnjoys.com/shamankingdvd.html

TV SERIES

Shaman King
http://www.toysnjoys.com/shamankingdvd.html

VIDEO GAMES

A summary of Shaman superskills
http://www.wow.com/2007/05/05/a-summary-of-shaman-super-skills/

YOUTUBE.COM

Cosmic Serpent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMFFkCM07mw

Ecuadorian Shaman: Cleansing Ceremony
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNQM_8PL6I4&feature=related

Rain forest shaman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbxT2-jAQzE&feature=fvw

Shamanism Aliens & Ayahuasca : Graham Hancock Pt.1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzKp2PeXeWI&feature=related

Siberian shamanism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR58fDl6jRs&feature=related

Spirit Worlds and Shamans - Tribe - BBC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRqN-X3an1Y&feature=related&pvpos=5

What is shamanism?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibtxZmcep-I&feature=related

VIDEOS

Fire on the Mountain: A Gathering of Shamans (106 min)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4749156257249602834#

VIRTUAL LIBRARY

NYPL Digital Gallery
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?word=Shamans%20--%20Africa&s=3&notword=&f=2

WEBSITES

Shamanism
http://www.crystalinks.com/shamanism.html

Shamanism and African traditional religion
http://www.theafrican.com/Magazine/shaman.html

Shamans and shamanism
http://sped2work.tripod.com/shaman.html

Supernatural
http://www.grahamhancock.com/supernatural/

WIKIPEDIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamanism
Medicine man bleeding a patien... Digital ID: 488307. New York Public Library