Neil Price (1) (1965–)
Auteur de The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Neil Price, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
Neil Price (1) a été combiné avec Neil S. Price.
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Crédit image: Neil Price, photo by Linda Qviström
Œuvres de Neil Price
Les œuvres ont été combinées en Neil S. Price.
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- Nom légal
- Price, Neil Stuppel
- Date de naissance
- 1965
- Sexe
- male
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 134
- Popularité
- #151,727
- Évaluation
- 4.5
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 15
- Langues
- 3
The book attempts to address the question “how far is it possible to talk of shamanism in the pre-historic past?” The answer, Price asserts, “can only be sought in studies of material culture and, thus, archaeology.” These papers, other than one about San rock paintings in southern Africa, focus on the circumpolar region. They present archaeological studies of portable objects (i.e. amulets and the like), of the landscape, of rock art, of British Neolithic monuments, and of Anglo-Saxon cremation graves, and describe what might be evidence of the existence of shamanism or related actions/beliefs in the originating culture of each.
Price cautions that, “the use of anthropological analogy to bridge sometimes immense gaps of time and location is a great temptation.” I’m sure that must be true, but as a layperson I appreciate the wealth of information here and have to admit that, a la Jimmy Carter, in my heart, I sometimes succumb to temptation!
Finally, as in his earlier work, Price acknowledges people besides academics who have an interest in some of these archaeological sites and ideas, namely, neo-pagans and indigenous peoples whose ancestors are/might be the subjects of the excavations and/or studies. Unfortunately, (as far as I can tell) the collection doesn’t have a statement from the latter point of view, but there is an article by a neo-pagan person that gives some insight into that perspective.… (plus d'informations)