Wayward Shamans [electronic resource] : The Prehistory of an Idea
Tomášková, Silvia.
Tomâaéskovâa, Silvia.Author
Wayward Shamans tells the story of an idea that humanity's first expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman.   Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, the work follows the trajectory of European knowledge about the continent's eastern frontier.  The ethnographic record left by German natural historians engaged in the Russian colonial expansion project in the 18th century includes a range of shamanic practitioners, varied by gender and age.  Later accounts by ex
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Discoveries of an Imaginary Place; 2. Strange Landscapes, Familiar Magic; 3. People in a Land before Time; 4. The Invention of Siberian Ethnology; 5. Sex, Gender, and Encounters with Spirits; 6. Changed Men and Changed Women; 7. French Connections and the Spirits of Prehistory; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliographic Note; References; Index
Wayward Shamans tells the story of an idea that humanity's first expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman.   Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, the work follows the trajectory of European knowledge about the continent's eastern frontier.  The ethnographic record left by German natural historians engaged in the Russian colonial expansion project in the 18th century includes a range of shamanic practitioners, varied by gender and age.  Later accounts by ex
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Shamanism - Russia (Federation) - Siberia.
Shamanism -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia.
Shamans - Russia (Federation) - Siberia.
Shamans -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia.
Siberia (Russia) - Civilization.
Siberia (Russia) -- Civilization.
Siberia (Russia) - Colonization.
Siberia (Russia) -- Colonization.
Siberia (Russia) - Religious life and customs.
Siberia (Russia) -- Religious life and customs.
Shamans
Shamanism
Anthropology
Social Sciences
Social & Cultural Anthropology