Joan B Townsend

Biographic Data

ID94535
NAMEJoan B Townsend
GIVEN NAMESJoan B
FAMILY NAMETownsend
SIGNATURETOWNSEND J B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Manitoba
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS19
TOTAL CITATIONS30
AUTHOR COUNT19
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1963
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
H-INDEX3

  • Individualist Religious Movements

    Open AccessJoan B TownsendARTICLEAnthropology of Consciousness2004Cited by: 15References: 6

    I draw from my papers and oral presentations to address several issues of Core and Neo-shamanism. These include clarification of definitions and distinctions between traditional shamans, Core shamanism, Neo-shamanism, and urban shamanism. Finally I propose an evaluation of Core and Neo-shamanism

  • The Channeling Zone

    Joan B Townsend, Michael F Brown et al.ARTICLESociology of Religion2001

    Journal Article The Channeling Zone: American Spirituality in an Anxious Age, by Michael F. Brown. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997, 191 pp.+, $22.00 (cloth), $14.00 (paper) Get access Joan B. Townsend Joan B. Townsend Professor Emeritus University of Manitoba Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 62, Issue 3, Fall 2001, Pages 404–405, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712358 Pu…

  • Shamanism

    Open AccessJoan B Townsend, Joan TownsendARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2001Cited by: 1

    Shamanism: Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing. Merete Demant Jakobsen. New York: Berghahn Books, 1999. 274 pp

  • The Rulings of the Night

    Open AccessJoan B TownsendARTICLEAnthropology of Consciousness1997Cited by: 2References: 4

    The Rulings of the Night: An Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts. Gregory G. Maskarinec. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xi+276pp. $65.50 (cloth) $22.95 (paper

  • Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture

    Open AccessJoan B Townsend, Karla PoeweARTICLEAnthropologica1995

    Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture Karla Poewe, ed. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1994. xiv + 300 pp. $34.95 (cloth) Reviewer: Joan B. Townsend University of ManitobaFocussing on charismatics, this excellent interdisciplinary collection addresses both Pentecostalism and Charismatic Christianity as global movements, and deals with the history, spread and characteristics of both. Several underlying themes run through t…

  • The Subarctic Fur Trade

    Joan B Townsend, Shepard Krech et al.ARTICLEThe American Indian Quarterly1989

  • Aleut and Eskimo Art

    Joan B Townsend, Dorothy Jean RayARTICLEMan1983

  • A.F. Kashevarov's Coastal Explorations in Northwest Alaska, 1838, edited with an introduction by James W. VanStone. Translated by David H. Kraus

    Open AccessJoan B TownsendARTICLEARCTIC1977

  • Aleuts in Transition

    Joan B Townsend, Dorothy M JonesARTICLEEthnohistory1977

  • Mercantilism and Societal Change

    Joan B TownsendARTICLEEthnohistory1975

    Ethnohistoric data are used to examine aspects of Russian-American Company mercantilism in Alaska and implications tor socio-cultural change .*;tlldies. I or example, use of numbers of trade goods in contact archaeological sites as an index of the degree of contact change is questioned. Trade goods data and information involvint relations}lips of the Company, middlemen, and Indians, derived from ethno}listorical siourcesi, are applied to a ninete…

  • A Summary of Archaeology in the Katmai Region, Southwestern Alaska, by D.E. Dumond

    Open AccessJoan B TownsendARTICLEARCTIC1973

  • Ethnoarchaeology in Nineteenth Century Southern and Western Alaska

    Joan B TownsendARTICLEEthnohistory1973Cited by: 2

    An ethnoarchaeological model for the interpretation of nineteenth century archaeological sites in southern and western Alaska is generated from socio-cultural models for egalitarian society, ranked society and reciprocity systems. In conjunction with ethnohistorical sources and informant data, the hypothesized model is used to re-evaluate previously reported archaeological phenomena. The results indicate a broadened range of applications in archa…

  • Books Reviews

    Open AccessJoan B TownsendARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1972References: 1

    Book reviewed in this article: Archeology: Akulivikchuk: A Nineteenth Century Eskimo Village on the Nushagak River, Alaska . JAMES W. VANSTONE Archeology: Historic Settlement Patterns in the Nushagak River Region, Alaska . JAMES W. VAN‐STONE

  • Eskimos of the Nushagak River

    Joan B Townsend, James W VanstoneARTICLEEthnohistory1972

  • Folklore

    Open AccessJoan B TownsendARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1971

  • Archeology

    Open AccessJoan B TownsendARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1970

  • Kijik

    Richard E Morlan, James W Vanstone et al.ARTICLEMan1970Cited by: 5

  • Chugach Prehistory

    Joan B Townsend, Frederica De LagunaARTICLEMan1969Cited by: 4

  • Ethnographic Notes on the Pedro Bay Tanaina

    Open AccessJoan B TownsendARTICLEAnthropologica1963Cited by: 1