The A to Z of Shamanism
- ISBN-10
- 1461731844
- ISBN-13
- 9781461731849
- Category
- Body, Mind & Spirit
- Pages
- 332
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-04-01
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press
- Authors
- Graham Harvey, Robert J. Wallis
Description
The A to Z of Shamanism has the duel task of exploring the common ground of shamanic traditions and evaluating the diversity of both traditional indigenous communities and individual Western seekers. This is done in an introduction, a bibliography, a chronology, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries, which explore the consistent features of a variety of shamans, the purposes shamanism serves, the function and activities of the shaman, and the cultural contexts in which they make sense.
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