Shamanism

13 Mar 1995 19:04

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Recommended:
• Mircea Eliade, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
• E. C. Krupp, Skywatchers, Shamans and Kings: Astronomy and the Archaeology of Power
• I. M. Lewis, Ecstatic Religion [Far more tough-minded and in touch with social reality than Eliade, but also less broad-ranging and less sympathetic]

To read:
• Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, Shamanic Worlds: Rituals and Lore of Siberia and Central Asia
• Brodzky Stones, Bones and Skin: Ritual and Shamanic Art
• David Cole, The Theatrical Event
• Gloria Flaherty, Shamanism and the 18th Century
• R. Hutton, Shamanism: Siberian Spirituality and Western Imagination [I may have mangled the subtitle, but it's something to that effect]
• Neil Price (ed.), The Archaeology of Shamanism
• Allen Wardwell, Tangible Visions: Northwest Coast Indian Shamanism and Its Art