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Record #172079:
Shamanism: archaic techniques of ecstasy / Mircea Eliade ; translated from the French by Willard N. Trask.
Title: | Shamanism: archaic techniques of ecstasy / Mircea Eliade ; translated from the French by Willard N. Trask. |
Author(s): | Eliade, Mircea. Trask, Willard N., |
Date: | 1972. |
Publisher: | Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press |
Abstract: | Comprehensive treatment of shamanism, with special reference to Siberia. Includes ten chapters: 1. Recruiting methods; shamanism and mystical vocation. 2. Initiatory sicknesses and dreams. 3. Obtaining shamanic powers. 4. Shamanic initiation. 5. Symbolism of shaman's costume and drum. 6. Shamanism in Central and North Asia: celestial ascents and descents to underworld. 7. Shamanism in Central and North Asia: magical cures and shaman as psychopomp. 8. Shamanism in North and South America. 10. Southeast Asian and Oceanic shamanism. |
Notes: | First published in 1951. |
Keywords: | 2 -- Religion. 299 -- Religions, indigenous. 291.612 -- Shamanism. J -- Social sciences. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*50) -- Soviet Union. (*49) -- Alaska. |
Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: (*3) : 291.612 |
ISBN: | 0691017794 |
SPRI record no.: | 172079 |
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