Shamanism
Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
First published in 1951, Shamanism soon became the standard work in the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. Writing as the founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Romanian migr--scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) surveys the practice of Shamanism over two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the Shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia--where Shamanism was first observed--to North and South America, Indonesia, Tibet, China, and beyond. In this authoritative survey, Eliade illuminates the magico-religious life of societies that give primacy of place to the figure of the Shaman--at once magic…
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Weitere Autoren: Trask, Willard R. (Übers.) / Doniger, Wendy (Vorb.)
- ISBN: 978-0-691-11942-7
- EAN: 9780691119427
- Produktnummer: 9933134
- Verlag: University Presses
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 648 S.
- Masse: H21.7 cm x B13.9 cm x D3.4 cm 743 g
- Gewicht: 743
Über den Autor
Born in Bucharest in 1907, Mircea Eliade was for many years Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. He is author of, among other books, Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism, Myth of the Eternal Return, and Yoga: Immortality and Freedom (all Princeton). Wendy Doniger is Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. Her books include The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade, The Implied Spider, and Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India. Her translations of such texts as The Rig Veda, The Law of Manu, and the Kamasutra have garnered wide praise.
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