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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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| 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 |
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- Introduction : an overview of Shamanism / Peter T. Furst
- The attributes and power of the Shaman : a general description of the ecstatic care of the soul / Lawrence E. Sullivan
- The cultural significance of tobacco use in South America / Johannes Wilbert
- Shaminism in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala / Robert S. Carlsen and Martin Prechtel
- "The Mara'akáme does and undoes" : persistence and change in Huichol Shamanism / Peter T. Furst
- The dark emperor : central Asian origins in Chinese Shamanism / Gary Seaman
- Shamans in traditional Tuvinian society / Vera P. Diakonova
- The Shaman costume : image and myth / Larisa R. Pavlinskaya
- The horse in Yakut Shaminism / Vladimir Diachenko
- Texts of Shamanistic invocations from Central Asia and Kazakhstan / Vladimir N. Basilov.