Shamanic worlds : rituals and lore of Siberia and Central Asia /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Armonk, NY : North Castle Books, c1997.
Description:	xxxii, 260 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Shamanism -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia. Rites and ceremonies -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia. Folklore -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia. Turkic peoples -- Religion. Buriats -- Social life and customs. Buriats -- Social life and customs. Folklore. Rites and ceremonies. Shamanism. Turkic peoples -- Religion. Siberia (Russia) -- Religious life and customs. Russia (Federation) -- Siberia.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2720047

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Other authors / contributors:	Balzer, Marjorie Mandelstam.
ISBN:	1563249731 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Originally published: New York : M.E. Sharpe, 1990. Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-260).

Table of Contents:

I. Debates, Definitions, and Indigenous
Perspectives Chosen by the Spirits
Shamans and Their Religious Practices, from Shamanism Among the Turkic Peoples of Siberia
Shamanic Folklore
Healing Techniques Among Even Shamans
II. Wedding Theory and Field Data
The Teleut Ritual Chymyr: Exorcism and Explanation
The Archaic Epic and Its Relationship to Ritual from Ritual and Folklore in Siberian Shamanism
III. A Final Tribute
The Evenk Alga Ritual of Blessing: Matriona Kurbeltinova in Action

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