Part 1 The Ainu and Northern Japan
1 Coexistence with Nature and the "Third Philosophy": Learning form the Spirit of the Ainu / Masanori Toyooka Atuy
2 The Ainu Concept of the Soul / Taryo Obayashi
3 Ainu Shamanism: Oral Tradition, Healing, and Dramas / Takashi Irimoto
4 Healing Arts of the Itako / Takefusa Sasamori
5 Bear Rituals of the Matagi and the Ainu in Northeastern Japan / Kazunobu Ikeya
Part 2 Northern North America
6 World as Event: Aspects of Chipewyan Ontology / David M. Smith
7 Non-Directional Time and the Dene Life-Cycle / Henry S. Sharp
8 "You Think It's a Stump But That's My Grandfather": Narratives of Transformation in Northern North America / Robin Ridington
9 Spiritual Power and Everyday Lives: James Bay Cree Shaking Tent Performers and Their Audiences / Harvey A. Feit
10 Personal Names, Name Souls, and Social Change Among Canadian Inuit: A Case Study of the Akulivik Inuit / Nobuhiro Kishigami
11 The Human Hand in Yup'ik Eskimo Iconography and Oral Tradition / Ann Fienup-Riordan
Part 3 Northern Eurasia
12 Twenty-five Ceturies of Stability and Continuity in the Shamanistic and Animistic Beliefs of the Bering Strait Eskimos / Sergei A. Arutiunov
13 Animistic Mythology and Helping Spirits in Siberian Shamanism / Mihaly Hoppal
14 The Concept of Universe and Spiritual Beings Among Contemporary Yakut Shamans: The Revitalization of Animistic Belief and Shamanic Tradition / Takako Yamada
15 Shamanism and Animism: The Values of Nature in the Mind of Northern Peoples / Juha Pentikainen
16 Stone Worship in Mongolian Shamanism / Nacunbuhe
17 The Origin of the Cultural Consciousness of Andai / Suyuge
18 The Mongolian Perspective on Animal Resources: Analyzing the Ritual of Slaughter / Yuki Konagaya
19 Bugha-Noyon-Babay as an Image of a Mixed Shamanic-Buddhist-Orthodox Christian Tradition Among the Buryats of the Tunka District /Natalia Zhukovskaya
Part 4 Other Perspectives
20 A Possible Neurophysiological Basis of the Visual Images Seen in Shamanism / Akichika Mikami
21 Shamanic and Animistic Aspects of African Pygmies' Cultures / Masato Sawada
22 The Ecology of the Animisitic Views of the Gidra Papuans / Ryutaro Ohtsuka
Part 5 Concluding Remarks
23 An Anthropology of Animism and Shamanism / Takako Yamada
Contributors
Index
●著者紹介
Yamada, Takako（山田 孝子）
Faculty of Integrated Human Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Irimoto, Takashi（煎本 孝）
Faculty of Letters, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Arutiunov, Sergei A.
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Atuy, Masanori Toyooka（アト゚イ, 豊岡 征則）
Musician, Member of Moshiri Dance Group, Akan, Japan
Feit, Harvey A.
Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Fienup-Riordan, Ann
Smithsonian Institution, Anchorage, U.S.A.
Hoppal, Mihaly
Institute of Ethnography, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Ikeya, Kazunobu（池谷 和信）
National Museum of Ethnology, Senri, Japan
Kishigami, Nobuhiro（岸上 伸啓）
National Museum of Ethnology, Senri, Japan
Konagaya, Yuki（小長谷 有紀）
National Museum of Ethnology, Senri, Japan
Mikami, Akichika（三上 章允）
Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama, Japan
Nacunbuhe
Inner Mongolian University, Hohhot, China
Obayashi, Taryo（大林 太良）
Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Ohtsuka, Ryutaro（大塚 柳太郎）
Department of Human Ecology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Pentikainen, Juha
Institute of Comparative Religion, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Ridington, Robin
Department of Anthropology and Sociology (Emeritus), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Sasamori, Takefusa（笹森 建英）
Department of Education, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Japan
Sawada, Masato（澤田 昌人）
Faculty of Humanities, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan
Sharp, Henry S.
Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, U.S.A.
Smith, David M.
Sociology-Anthropology Department, University of Minnesota, Duluth, U.S.A.
Suyuge
Inner Mongolian University, Hohhot, China
Zhukovskaya, Natalia
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
