Ancient traditions : shamanism in central Asia and the Americas / Gary Seaman and Jane S. Day, editors.
Publication Info.
Niwot, CO : University Press of Colorado ; Denver : Denver Museum of Natural History in cooperation with Ethnographics Press, Center for Visual Anthropology, University of Southern California, [1994]
Papers from a symposium held at the Denver Museum of Natural History, June 1989.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-299) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction : an overview of Shamanism / Peter T. Furst -- 2. The attributes and power of the Shaman : a general description of the ecstatic care of the soul / Lawrence E. Sullivan -- 3. The cultural significance of tobacco use in South America / Johannes Wilbert -- 4. Shaminism in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala / Robert S. Carlsen and Martin Prechtel -- 5. "The Mara'akáme does and undoes" : persistence and change in Huichol Shamanism / Peter T. Furst -- 6. The dark emperor : central Asian origins in Chinese Shamanism / Gary Seaman -- 10. Shamans in traditional Tuvinian society / Vera P. Diakonova -- 11. The Shaman costume : image and myth / Larisa R. Pavlinskaya -- 12. The horse in Yakut Shaminism / Vladimir Diachenko -- 13. Texts of Shamanistic invocations from Central Asia and Kazakhstan / Vladimir N. Basilov