Shamans: Siberian Spirituality and the Western Imagination

by Ronald Hutton

Book Overview

With their ability to enter trances, to change into the bodies of other creatures, and to fly through the northern skies, shamans are the subject of both popular and scholarly fascination. In Shamans: Siberian Spirituality and the Western Imagination Ronald Hutton looks at what is really known about both the shamans of Siberia and about others spread throughout the world. He traces the growth of knowledge of shamans in Imperial and Stalinist Russia,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847250270
• ISBN13: 9781847250278
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"