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Shamans : Siberian spirituality and the western imagination / Ronald Hutton.

Title
Shamans : Siberian spirituality and the western imagination / Ronald Hutton.
Author
Hutton, Ronald
Publication
London ; New York : Hambledon and London, 2001.

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Description
ix, 220 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Shamans > Siberia
  • Shamans
  • Shamanism > Siberia
  • Shamanism
  • Shamanism > history
  • Siberia (Russia) > Religion
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-203) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
pt. 1. Why we think we know about shamans -- 1. The creation of Siberia -- 2. The creation of Siberians -- 3. The transformation of Siberians -- 4. The records of shamanism -- pt. 2. What we think we know about shamans -- 5. What shamans did -- 6. Shamanic cosmologies -- 7. Shamanic apprenticeship and equipment -- 8. Shamanic performance -- 9. Knots and loose ends -- pt. 3. Siberia in the shamanic world -- 10. The discovery of a shamanic world -- 11. The discovery of a shamanic past -- 12. The discovery of a shamanic future.
ISBN
1852853247
OCLC
  • 46602661
  • SCSB-11870941
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library