The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art

by Rebecca R. Stone

Book Overview

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.

Shamanism--the practice of entering a trance state to experience visions of a reality beyond the ordinary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477329218
• ISBN13: 9781477329214
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 10.9"