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Shamanism - An Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices, and Culture [2 volumes] (Hardcover)
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Shamanism - An Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices, and Culture [2 volumes] (Hardcover)
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A guide to worldwide shamanism and shamanistic practices,
emphasizing historical and current cultural adaptations. This
two-volume reference is the first international survey of
shamanistic beliefs from prehistory to the present day. In nearly
200 detailed, readable entries, leading ethnographers,
psychologists, archaeologists, historians, and scholars of religion
and folk literature explain the general principles of shamanism as
well as the details of widely varied practices. What is it like to
be a shaman? Entries describe, region by region, the traits, such
as sicknesses and dreams, that mark a person as a shaman, as well
as the training undertaken by initiates. They detail the costumes,
music, rituals, artifacts, and drugs that shamans use to achieve
altered states of consciousness, communicate with spirits, travel
in the spirit world, and retrieve souls. Unlike most Western books
on shamanism, which focus narrowly on the individual's experience
of healing and trance, Shamanism also examines the function of
shamanism in society from social, political, and historical
perspectives and identifies the ancient, continuous thread that
connects shamanistic beliefs and rituals across cultures and
millennia.
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