Historical dictionary of shamanism
By: Graham Harvey, Robert J. Wallis.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780810857988
Description: "Historical Dictionary of Shamanism explores the common ground of shamanic traditions and evaluates the diversity of both traditional indigenous communities and individual Western seekers through an introduction, a bibliography, a chronology, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries that explore the features of shamans, the purposes of shamanism, the functions and activities of the shaman, and the cultural contexts in which shamanism makes sense."--BOOK JACKET.