Stag and Stone - Religion, Archaeology and Esoteric Aesthetics - Jay Johnston
Chapter 4. Static Shamans: Agency and Iconography
Stag and Stone - Religion, Archaeology and Esoteric Aesthetics - Jay Johnston
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University of Sydney
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Jay Johnston is an interdisciplinary researcher working at the interface of religious studies, art history, continental philosophy and cultural studies. Her research is centrally concerned with the interrelationship of aesthetics and ethics, theories of embodiment and agency, ritual material culture, epistemology and multispecies studies.
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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.