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Book: Stag and Stone

Chapter: Chapter 4. Static Shamans: Agency and Iconography

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.27297

Blurb:

The chapter explores the contested practice of identifying specific images from prehistory and early historic periods as evidence of shamanic practice and belief. In particular it examines picture stones created by the Picts (Scotland) and the Norse (Gotland). Building on the concepts developed in the previous section the issue of materiality and agency is central to the new analysis proposed.

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