Wayward Shamans : The Prehistory of an Idea /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tomášková, Silvia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social & Cultural Anthropology.
Social Sciences.
Anthropology.
Schamanismus
Shamans.
Shamanism.
Colonization.
Civilization.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Spirituality > Shamanism.
Chamanisme > Russie > Siberie.
Shamanism > Russia (Federation) > Siberia.
Shamans > Russia (Federation) > Siberia.
Sibirien
Russia (Federation) > Siberia.
Siberie (Russie) > Colonisation.
Siberie (Russie) > Civilisation.
Siberie (Russie) > Vie religieuse.
Siberia (Russia) > Colonization.
Siberia (Russia) > Civilization.
Siberia (Russia) > Religious life and customs.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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