Mythos: The Princeton / Bollingen Series in World Mythology: Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (Paperback)
By Mircea Eliade; Willard R Trask; Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions Wendy DonigerPublisher: Princeton University Press
EAN-13: 9780691119427ISBN-10: 0-691-11942-2
Book Description
First published in 1951, Shamanism soon became the standard work in the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. Writing as the founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Romanian migr--scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) surveys the practice of Shamanism over two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the Shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia--where Shamanism was first observed--to North and South America, Indonesia, Tibet, China, and beyond. In this authoritative survey, Eliade illuminates the magico-religious life of societies that give primacy of place to the figure of the Shaman--at once magician and medicine man, healer and miracle-doer, priest, mystic, and poet. Synthesizing the approaches of psychology, sociology, and ethnology, Shamanism will remain for years to come the reference book of choice for those intrigued by this practice.-- "New York Times Book Review"
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