The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American ArtUniversity of Texas Press, 21 sept 2012 - 243 páginas An important new way of viewing the prehistoric art of the Americas, The Jaguar Within demonstrates that understanding a work of art’s connection with shamanic trance can lead to an appreciation of it as an extremely creative solution to the inherent challenge of giving material form to nonmaterial realities and states of being. 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. |
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The Common Perceptual Phenomena | 34 |
The Intermediary | 49 |
chaPTer 4 | 66 |
Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Costa Rican | 93 |
chaPTer 6 | 122 |
chaPTer 7 | 149 |
Toward the Animal End | 183 |
Conclusion | 205 |
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