BIP! Finder - Reassessing Shamanism and Animism in the Art and Archaeology of Ancient Mesoamerica

2021 • Reassessing Shamanism and Animism in the Art and Archaeology of Ancient Mesoamerica

Authors: Harrison-Buck, Eleanor; Freidel, David A.

Venue: Religions

Type: Publication

Abstract: Shamanism and animism have proven to be useful cross-cultural analytical tools for anthropology, particularly in religious studies. However, both concepts root in reductionist, social evolutionary theory and have been criticized for their vague and homogenizing rubric, an overly romanticized idealism, and the tendency to ‘other’ nonwestern peoples as ahistorical, apolitical, and irrational. The alternative has been a largely secular view of religion, favoring materialist processes of rationalization and “disenchantment.” Like any cross-... (read more)

Topics: Anthropology Epistemology Aesthetics

DOI: 10.3390/rel12060394

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