Shamans and Elders: Experience, Knowledge, and Power Among the Daur Mongols

ISBN-13: 9780198280682 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 416 str.

Humphrey

Opis

This work is a ground breaking study of Mongolian shamanism and society, past and present. Lavishly illustrated and containing a wealth of new information, it presents a fresh understanding of the widespread phenomenon of shamanism. It looks at gender and ritual, female shamans and goddess worship, death and funeral rituals, the importance of old men and ancestors, and Daur notions of landscape within their direct experience and beyond.

Recenzje

Though valuable for its detailed ethnographic accounts of Daur shamanism and culture, the book is vastly more than a straightforward ethnography ... an engrossing journey of interpretation through the ideas and recollections of a manifold, challenging "Other", on which readers are continuously challenged to reflect upon and mitigate for themselves.