http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/1995/03/13#shamanism <ul>Recommended: <li><a href="eliade.html">Mircea Eliade,</a> <cite>Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy</cite> <li>E. C. Krupp, <cite>Skywatchers, Shamans and Kings: Astronomy and the Archaeology of Power</cite> <li>I. M. Lewis, <cite>Ecstatic Religion</cite> [Far more tough-minded and in touch with social reality than Eliade, but also less broad-ranging and less sympathetic] </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, <cite>Shamanic Worlds: Rituals and Lore of Siberia and Central Asia</cite> <li>Brodzky <cite>Stones, Bones and Skin: Ritual and Shamanic Art</cite> <li>David Cole, <cite>The Theatrical Event</cite> <li>Gloria Flaherty, <cite>Shamanism and the 18th Century</cite> <li>R. Hutton, <cite>Shamanism: Siberian Spirituality and Western Imagination</cite> [I may have mangled the subtitle, but it's something to that effect] <li>Neil Price (ed.), <cite>The Archaeology of Shamanism</cite> <li>Allen Wardwell, <cite>Tangible Visions: Northwest Coast Indian Shamanism and Its Art</cite> </ul>