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The a to Z of Shamanism
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2010
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Few religious traditions have generated such diversity and stirred imaginations as shamanism. In their engagements with other worlds, shamans have conversed with animals and ancestors and have been empowered with the knowledge to heal patients, advise hunters, and curse enemies. Still other shamans, aided by rhythmic music or powerful plant helpers, undertake journeys into different realities where their actions negotiate harmony between human and other than human communities. Once relegated to paintings on cave walls, today Shamanism can be seen in performances at rave clubs and psychotherapeutic clinics.
The A to Z of Shamanism has the duel task of exploring the common ground of shamanic traditions and evaluating the diversity of both traditional indigenous communities and individual Western seekers. This is done in an introduction, a bibliography, a chronology, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries, which explore the consistent features of a variety of shamans, the purposes shamanism serves, the function and activities of the shaman, and the cultural contexts in which they make sense.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-7600-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-4617-3184-9
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
309
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Table of Contents No access
Editor's Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Acronyms and Abbreviations No access
Chronology No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
The Dictionary No access Pages 11 - 244
Bibliography No access Pages 245 - 306
About the Authors No access Pages 307 - 309
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