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(Theory & Background)

Note: The topics covered here are of particular
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Ritual and Shamanism

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Ritual/Shamanism -- Topics

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      interest and are NOT meant to be comprehensive.

[Creation of Self via Ritual]

[Survival Strategies via Ritual]

[Shaman as Medicine Man]

[Shaman as Seer]

[Shaman as Intercessor]

[Shaman as Interpreter of Symbols]


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HUAS 7301

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Mirrored info:

For more info, pls contact:  Thomas Riccio at UT-DALLAS.EDU.

The course will examine the form and function of 
ritual and shamanism from a cultural, social, 

historical, and performance perspective. The first 
part of the course will examine ritual as a vector of 
human transition. Birth, puberty, marriage, and death 
are, in all cultures, marked by ceremonies, which may 
differ in detail but are universal in function. 
Comparative and structural examination of ritual will 
identify origins, process and evolution of ritual and 
its roles in defining and maintaining social and 
cultural order. The second part of the course will 
build on the first by examining the role of the 
shaman and its various cultural manifestations as 
magician, medicine man, healer, miracle-doer, 
psychopomp, priest, mystic, and poet. The course will 
explored and analyze the ideology of shamanism, its 
techniques, symbolisms, and mythologies. Using 
specific examples from Siberia, Africa, Alaska, 
China, and Korea, the course will identify and 
explore the common attributes of ritual and shamanism 
and how various expressions have been shaped by 
place, need, and worldview.


REQUIRED TEXTS:
Ritual -- Maldoma Patrice Somé 

Rites of Passage -- Arnold Van Gennep

Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy -- Mircea 
           Eliade

Additional Material on library/electronic reserve.

RECOMMENDED TEXTS:
Shamans Through Time, 500 Years on the path to knowledge, Narby and Huxley, editors

The Ritual Process, Victor Turner
Ancient Land: Sacred Whale, the Inuit Hunt and its 

Rituals, Tom Lowenstein

Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity, Roy A. Rappaport
 



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