The Spirit's Receptacle: The History of Trepanation Across Cultures
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The Spirit's Receptacle: The History of Trepanation Across Cultures
14.99 €
11.99 €
In 1897, a French military doctor stole a very valuable artifact from the village of Taberga. It was a human skull, on which healers of the Berber tribe from generation to generation demonstrated their skill of trepanning during "professional initiation".
From the standpoint of modern scientific ethics, this act looks bad, although this is how complex skills and rituals in a traditional culture society that go back to the deep past came to be known. Human culture since ancient times has been full of mysteries and riddles, not all of which have been solved. Yet it is interesting to look at the history of our ancestors through... "a hole in the head". Trepanation was part of complex burial rites, from trepanized skulls created masks, some tribes kept the heads of slain enemies in their own homes! Why are folk healers still in demand in society today? How successful were operations on the skull vault in the Stone Age? Were antiseptics invented in the ancient world? And why was trepanation (the earliest surgical operation in the history of mankind) important in the lives of our ancestors? These and many other questions will be answered by the book of Doctor of Historical Sciences Maria Mednikova "The receptacle of the spirit. History of trepanation in different cultures".
From the standpoint of modern scientific ethics, this act looks bad, although this is how complex skills and rituals in a traditional culture society that go back to the deep past came to be known. Human culture since ancient times has been full of mysteries and riddles, not all of which have been solved. Yet it is interesting to look at the history of our ancestors through... "a hole in the head". Trepanation was part of complex burial rites, from trepanized skulls created masks, some tribes kept the heads of slain enemies in their own homes! Why are folk healers still in demand in society today? How successful were operations on the skull vault in the Stone Age? Were antiseptics invented in the ancient world? And why was trepanation (the earliest surgical operation in the history of mankind) important in the lives of our ancestors? These and many other questions will be answered by the book of Doctor of Historical Sciences Maria Mednikova "The receptacle of the spirit. History of trepanation in different cultures".
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