Loose Ends And What Knots
β Scribed by Jeffrey Hancock
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 65 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ASIN
- B07GLZYHCX
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Cover; Contents; Introduction; PART ONE: 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; PART TWO: 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; PART THREE: 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; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M.;With their ability to enter trances, to change into the bodies of other creatures, and to fly through the northern skies, shamans are the subject of both popular and scholarly fascination. In Shamans: Siberian Spirituality and the Western ImaginationΓ Ronald Hutton looks at what is really known about both the shamans of Siberia and about others spread throughout the world. He traces the growth of knowledge of shamans in Imperial and Stalinist Russia, descibes local variations and different types of shamanism, and explores more recent western influences on its history and modern practice. This.
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