Art and Shamanism: From Cave Painting to the White Cube

Art and shamanism are often represented as timeless, universal features of human experience, with an apparently immutable relationship. Shamanism is frequently held to represent the origin of religion and shamans are characterized as the first artists, leaving their infamous mark in the cave art of...

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Main Author: Wallis, Robert J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2019]
In: Religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-21
Further subjects:B Discourse Analysis
B Shamanism
B Palaeolithic substratum
B elective affinities
B Entanglement
B cave art
B origins of art
B Species
B origins of religion
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