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Ancient traditions : shamanism in central Asia and the Americas /
Shamanism is the world's oldest religion. The rituals and beliefs of this ancient tradition were carried from Asia and Siberia into the New World by nomadic hunting bands beginning 12,000 years ago. This unique collection of essays on shamanism in Central Asia and the Indian Americas provides s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores Corporativos: | , |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Denver :
Denver Museum of Natural History in cooperation with Ethnographics Press, Center for Visual Anthropology, University of Southern California,
©1994.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Shamanism is the world's oldest religion. The rituals and beliefs of this ancient tradition were carried from Asia and Siberia into the New World by nomadic hunting bands beginning 12,000 years ago. This unique collection of essays on shamanism in Central Asia and the Indian Americas provides sound and engaging scholarship that reflects the great diversity in this fascinating field. Over the centuries, shamanism has endured as an abiding topic of interest not only because of a human concern with the past, but also because of a common yearning to acknowledge life lived in closer symbolic relationship to earth cycles. For the reader interested in indigenous cultures and religions, this collection of essays clarifies much of the New Age speculation on universals in shamanism by bringing studies of different ethnic and historical expressions to bear on the subject. |
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| Notas: | Papers from a symposium held at the Denver Museum of Natural History, June 1989. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 312 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-299) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585003963 9780585003962 |