Horizons of Shamanism A Triangular Approach to the History and Anthropology of Ecstatic Techniques

"The multifarious and sometimes contested concept of "shamanism" has aroused intense popular and scholarly interest since its initial coinage by the Russian scholar V.M. Mikhailovsky in the late 19th century. In this book, three leading scholars, representing different branches of the...

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Main Author: Stockholm University Press (author)
Corporate Author: Stockholm University Press, author, issuing body (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stockholm : Stockholm University Press 2016.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745312006719
Table of Contents:
  • Shamans emerging from repression in Siberia: lightning rods of fear and hope / Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer
  • Travelling in spirit: from Friuli to Siberia / Carlo Ginzburg
  • Shamanism in classical scholarship: where are we now? / Jan N. Bremmer.