The Archaeology of Shamanism
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 21, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780415252546
First sentence: When a dissident priest called Avvakum arrived in the lands of the nomadic, reindeer-herding Evenki in the early 1650s, having been exiled to central Siberia by the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, no outsider had ever heard of a saman, let alone written the word down or explored the cosmological understandings that underpinned its meaning.