Notebooks
Shamanism
13 Mar 1995 19:04
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