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Title: Genealogies of Shamanism: Struggles for Power, Charisma and Authority
Author: Jeroen W Boekhoven
ISBN: 9789077922927
Publisher: Barkhuis
Published: 2011
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 383
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : After Western-Europeans first heard the word ‘shaman’ in Siberia at the end of the seventeenth century, the term rapidly acquired a remarkable range of meanings in different contexts. This book traces the long genealogical journey of the notions of ‘shaman’ and ‘shamanism’. It starts with the eighteenth-century discovery of Siberian shamans and ends with the contemporary field of shamanism in the Netherlands. By exploring the ways in which the notions came to be constructed and authorised historically, the various interpretations and conceptualisations of ‘shaman’ and ‘shamanism’ are interpreted as outcomes of struggles within distinct milieus.
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