●目次
Part I The Ainu and Northern Japan
1 Coexistence with Nature and the \Third Philosophy\: Learning form the Spirit of the Ainu. (Toyooka, A. M.)
2 The Ainu Concept of the Soul. (Obayashi, T.)
3 Ainu Shamanism: Oral Tradition, Healing, and Dramas. (Irimoto, T.)
4 Healing Arts of the Itako. (Sasamori, T.)
5 Bear Rituals of the Matagi and the Ainu in Northeastern Japan. (Ikeya, Kazunobu)
Part II Northern North America
6 World as Event: Aspects of Chipewyan Ontology. (Smith, D. M.)
7 Non-Directional Time and the Dene Life-Cycle. (Sharp, H. S.)
8 \You Think It's a Stump But That's My Grandfather\: Narratives of Transformation in Northern North America. (Ridington, R.)
9 Spiritual Power and Everyday Lives: James Bay Cree Shaking Tent Performers and Their Audiences. (Feit, H. A.)
10 Personal Names, Name Souls, and Social Change Among Canadian Inuit: A Case Study of the Akulivik Inuit. (Kishigami, N.)
11 The Human Hand in Yup'ik Eskimo Iconography and Oral Tradition. (Fienup-Riordan, Ann)
Part ? Northern Eurasia
12 Twenty-five Ceturies of Stability and Continuity in the Shamanistic and Animistic Beliefs of the Bering Strait Eskimos. (Arutiunov, S. A.)
13 Animistic Mythology and Helping Spirits in Siberian Shamanism. (Hoppal, Mihaly)
14 The Concept of Universe and Spiritual Beings Among Contemporary Yakut Shamans: The Revitalization of Animistic Belief and Shamanic Tradition. (Yamada, T.)
15 Shamanism and Animism: The Values of Nature in the Mind of Northern Peoples. (Pentikainen, Juha)
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. (Konagaya, Yuki)
19 Bugha-Noyon-Babay as an Image of a Mixed Shamanic-Buddhist-Orthodox Christian Tradition Among the Buryats of the Tunka District. (Zhukovskaya, N.)
Part III Other Perspectives
20 A Possible Neurophysiological Basis of the Visual Images Seen in Shamanism. (Mikami, A.)
21 Shamanic and Animistic Aspects of African Pygmies' Cultures. (Sawada, M.)
22 The Ecology of the Animisitic Views of the Gidra Papuans. (Ohtsuka, R.)
Part IV Concluding Remarks
23 An Anthropology of Animism and Shamanism. (Yamada, T.)
●著者紹介
山田 孝子
Faculty of Integrated Human Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
煎本 孝
Faculty of Letters, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.