Contents

Umberto Sansoni
The shamanic-ecstatic hypothesis for the Alpine rock art of Valcamonica

Kenneth Lymer
Sensuous Visions: Encountering the shamanistic rock art of the Bayan Jurek Mountains, Kazakhstan

Inga-Maria Mulk
Depictions in Sami rock art of the Mother Earth figure

Zaur Hasanov
Argimpasa – Scythian goddess, patroness of shamans: a comparison of historical, archaeological, linguistic and ethnographic data

Giovannni Kezich
The bear and the plough: Shamanism in the Neolithic

Pi-Chen Liu
From shamanic rituals to theatre and cultural industry: The state, shamanism and gender among the Kavalan (Taiwan)

Eva Jane Neumann Fridman
Mongolian shamanism envisaged, embodied

Lia Zola
Women shamans and their portrayal in the Olonkho Sakha epic poems

Dagmar Eigner
The poetics of healing: Shamanic rituals in Central Nepal

Diana Riboli
Inadvertent art. Icons, music and dance in Chepang (Nepal) and Semang-Negrito (Peninsular Malaysia) shamanism

Hee Sook Lee-Niinioja
Artistic expressions of the visual language on Sami ritual drums

Vesa Matteo Piludu
The ritual art and paraphernalia of the Nepalese jhankris and Tamang bombo

Denita Benyshek
Artists as shamans: Historical review and recent theoretical model

Barbara Wilhelmi
Perspectives on the arts of Parbati

Daniel A. Kister
Shamanic artistry in a French Absurdist play

Carla Corradi Musi
The shamanic works of Minsalim Timergazeev and other artists of the First International Woodcarving Festival of Uvat

Jürgen Werner Kremer
Norval Morrisseau – Shaman-Artist

Susan Michaelson
The hand on the wall of the cave. Exploring connections between shamanism and the visual arts

Gilah Yelin Hirsch
Artist as Shaman