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Shamanism: archaic techniques of ecstasy (Bollingen series)
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Shamanism: archaic techniques of ecstasy (Bollingen series) Hardcover - 1970

by Mircea Eliade


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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 migr--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 America, 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 man, 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.

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  • Title Shamanism: archaic techniques of ecstasy (Bollingen series)
  • Author Mircea Eliade
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Second Printing
  • Pages 610
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, USA
  • Date 1970
  • ISBN 9780691098272

About the author

Born in Bucharest in 1907, Mircea Eliade was for many years Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. He is author of, among other books, Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism, Myth of the Eternal Return, and Yoga: Immortality and Freedom (all Princeton). Wendy Doniger is Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. Her books include The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade, The Implied Spider, and Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India. Her translations of such texts as The Rig Veda, The Law of Manu, and the Kamasutra have garnered wide praise.
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Princeton Universtiy Press. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1964. Hardcover. 0691098271 . Second printing 1970. Translated to english from french by Willard R. Trask. Bollingen Series LXXVI; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .
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