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Shamanic Regalia in the Far North (Hardcover, New)
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Shamanic Regalia in the Far North (Hardcover, New)
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Patricia Rieff Anawalt probes deeply into the significance and
meaning of shamanic practices in Northeast Siberia, Alaska and
British Columbia, and also points up the intriguing differences in
the ritual garb as generation after generation sought to influence
events through the aid of spirits. From the prehistoric Ice Age up
to the 20th century, related peoples across these vast territories
created a wide cultural universe derived from the
cross-fertilization of ideas, oral traditions and art. With
supernatural helpers, shamans sought to ensure their people's
survival by controlling and pacifying the spirits of the animal
world. It was vital to have the `right' clothing and equipment: it
not only protected the shamans and enabled them to wield their
power over the spirits, but also created a powerful mystique among
their human clients. The surviving items of regalia, often
collected by anthropologists under the most challenging
circumstances, bequeath an acute sense of the animistic world and
the early interactions between man and nature, offering us an
astonishing window into the worldviews of our distant ancestors.
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