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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Tomášková, Silvia
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
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.