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Wayward shamans : the prehistory of an idea /

This book tells the story of an idea that humanity's first expression of art, religion, and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, the work follows the tr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tomášková, Silvia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Discoveries of an imaginary place
  • Strange landscapes, familiar magic
  • People in a land before time
  • The invention of Siberian ethnology
  • Sex, gender, and encounters with spirits
  • Changed men and changed women
  • French connections and the spirits of prehistory
  • Conclusion.