Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (Bollingen Series) - Eliade, Mircea

Clean, tight, unmarked; very light wear to corners; otherwise spine straight and uncreased; appears unread; First published in 1951, Shamanism soon became the standard work in the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. Writing as the founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Romanian emegre - scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) surveys the practice of Shamanism over two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the Shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia - where Shamanism was first observed - to North and South, Indonesia, Tibet, China, and beyond. In this authoritative survey, Eliade illuminates the magico-religious life of societies that give primacy of place to the figure of the Shaman - at once magician and medicine, healer and miracle - doer, priest, mystic, and poet. Synthesizing the approaches of psychology, sociology, and ethnology, Shamanism will remain for years to come the reference book of choice for those intrigued by this practice.
Near Fine
Soft cover
Princeton University Press
2004
Princeton, NJ