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Shamans and Elders

Name: Shamans and Elders
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198280682
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Autor: Caroline Humphrey, Urgunge Onon

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Shamans and Elders is a major study of Mongolian shamanism and society, past and present. It present...

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Autor

Caroline Humphrey, Urgunge Onon

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

1996

Pagini

410

EAN

9780198280682

ISBN

0198280688

Enbook ID

04476999

Editura

Oxford University Press

Greutate

636

Dimensiuni

156 x 235 x 25

Descriere completă

Shamans and Elders is a major study of Mongolian shamanism and society, past and present. It presents a wealth of new information, and offers a fresh understanding of the widespread phenomenon of shamanism. This unique and detailed analysis of a fascinating subject combines a discussion of Urgunge Onon's memories of shamanism with Caroline Humphrey's text- and field-based analytical knowledge of Central and North Asian shamanism. It covers among other things: notions of gender in Mongolian society, including male and female traditions in ritual, female shamans, and goddess worship; attitudes to death, and funeral rituals; the importance of old men and of ancestors; and Daur notions of landscape within their direct experience (the importance of the sky, of the mountains, of the forest, rivers, etc.) and beyond. In covering these diverse areas, the authors depart from the general cultural models usually offered in discussions of shamanism, providing a new vision of 'shamanism' as made up of fragmentary, non-formularized parts. It presents much-needed insight on a little-known world, and points to an original new way of doing anthropology.