Volume 46 / Number 1
2004
On The Cover: The Gnawa in the Tuileries Gardens. Photo Credit: Deborah Kapchan.
Vol. 46 / No. 1
By: Dori Panzer
Eddie Lenihan: A Storyteller in Modern Ireland: Research Notes
Over a year ago, Eddie Lenihan was telling me about collecting stories on the fairy faith. He said, “Of all […]
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Vol. 46 / No. 1
By: Deborah I. Olszewski
Richard Zettler: Associate Curator-In-Charge, Near East Section: Meet the Curators
Ancient Mesopotamia is Richard Zettler’s research passions. As Associate Curator-in-Charge of the Near East Section, and Associate Professor of Anthropologic, […]
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Vol. 46 / No. 1
By: Edith Turner
Shamanism and Spirit
The word “Shaman” derives from saman, taken from the Tungus of Siberia where it means “spirit healer.” Shamanism, or working […]
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Vol. 46 / No. 1
By: Kenneth Lymer
Shimmering Visions: Shamanistic Rock Art Images from the Republic of Kazakhstan
Between 1998-2000 I visited several important rock art sites within the Republic of Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan is one of several countries […]
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Vol. 46 / No. 1
By: Elin C. Danien
On the Dilemma of a Horn: The Horned Shamans of West Mexico
In one of the Wall cases of the Penn Museum’s Mesoamerican Gallery two small figures curl and turn around each […]
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By: Peter T. Furst
Visionary Plants and Ecstatic Shamanism
Big Raven, Whale, little earth spirits, and a deity named Vahiyinin, are the actors in a tale a Siberian Koryak […]
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By: Deborah Kapchan
Moroccan Gnawa and Transglobal Trance: The Medium is the Music
The Gnawa Originally from Sub-Saharan Africa, the Gnawa are ritual musicians who were brought to Morocco mostly as slaves in […]
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By: Michael Harris, Valentina L. Martinez, WM. Jerald Kennedy, Charles Roberts and James Gammack-Clark
The Complex Interplay of Culture and Nature in Coastal South-Central Ecuador: An Interdisciplinary Work
Interdisciplinary Beginnings One of the most enduring domains of inquiry within anthropology has been that of the human-environment relationship. Here […]
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By: Irene Bald Romano, Valentine Talland and David Gilman Romano
New Perspectives on the Classics: Book News & Reviews
Portraits of the Ptolemies: Greek Kings as Egyptian Pharaohs, by Paul Edmund Stanwick (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002), 236 […]
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By: Jeremy A. Sabloff
From the Director – Spring 2004
This is my last column as Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Soon after this issue of Expedition appears, […]
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Museum Mosaic – Spring 2004: People, Places, Projects
Actors from the Vagabond acting Troupe (shown in the two photographs here) delighted Penn Museum visitors with in-gallery performances of […]
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By: Beebe Bahrami
From the Editor – Spring 2004
Key to understanding shamanism is recognizing that it is as much a technique as it is a worldview. What makes […]
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By: Pam Kosty
Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur: Exhibit Notes
The Penn Museum’s nationally traveling exhibit returns home for a limited time this spring and summer, before traveling to additional […]
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Vol. 46 / No. 1
By: Alex Pezzati
Goldberg Variations: Archives Houses Over 16,000 Eclectic Images From Photographer Reuben Goldberg
The Archives is known for its collections of field notes and photographs documenting human cultures and archaeological remains around the world. […]
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