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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2013]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.


