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MARC recordThe shaman / Piers Vitebsky.
| Title: | The shaman / Piers Vitebsky. |
| Author(s): | Vitebsky, Piers. |
| Date: | 1995. |
| Publisher: | Boston: Little, Brown and Company |
| Abstract: | Extensively illustrated guide to world of shamanism which examines its historic and present-day manifestations. Explores visions, initiation rites, shamanic chants, shamanism and mental health, use of plants, political and social background to shaman's work form Stone Age to post-Communist Russia. Also covers links between shaman's sense of unity in nature and recent growth of ecological consciousness in West. Includes section on regional traditions. |
| Keywords: | .000(410) -- British author: SPRI. 291.612 -- Shamanism. 113/119 -- Attitudes to nature. T -- Social anthropology and ethnography. |
| Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: (*3) : 291.612 |
| ISBN: | 0316903043 |
| SPRI record no.: | 172082 |
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