Title: Historical dictionary of shamanism
First published: 2007
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.
Subjects: Shamanism, Dictionaries, History
LC classification: GN