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Wayward Shamans

The Prehistory of an Idea

Wayward Shamans( )
Author: Tomásková, Silvia
Series title:Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
ISBN:978-0-520-27532-4
Publication Date:May 2013
Publisher:University of California Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $57.95
Book Description:

Wayward Shamans 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 trajectory of European knowledge about the continent's eastern frontier. The ethnographic record left by German natural historians engaged in the Russian colonial expansion project...
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Book Details
Pages:288
Detailed Subjects: Body, Mind & Spirit / Shamanism
Social Science / Customs & Traditions
History / Russia / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.24 x 22.86 x 1.778 cm
Book Weight:0.409 Kilograms



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