Shamanism
Last update: 13 Mar 1995 19:04First version:
- Recommended:
- Mircea Eliade, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
- E. C. Krupp, Skywatchers, Shamans and Kings: Astronomy and the Archaeology of Power
- I. M. Lewis, Ecstatic Religion [Far more tough-minded and in touch with social reality than Eliade, but also less broad-ranging and less sympathetic]
- To read:
- Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, Shamanic Worlds: Rituals and Lore of Siberia and Central Asia
- Brodzky Stones, Bones and Skin: Ritual and Shamanic Art
- David Cole, The Theatrical Event
- Gloria Flaherty, Shamanism and the 18th Century
- Carlo Ginzburg and Bruce Lincoln, Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf: A Classic Case in Comparative Perspective
- R. Hutton, Shamanism: Siberian Spirituality and Western Imagination [I may have mangled the subtitle, but it's something to that effect]
- Neil Price (ed.), The Archaeology of Shamanism
- Manvir Singh, "The cultural evolution of shamanism", Behavioral and Brain Sciences 41 (2018): 66
- Allen Wardwell, Tangible Visions: Northwest Coast Indian Shamanism and Its Art
- Thierry Zarcone and Angela Hobart (eds.), Shamanism and Islam: Sufism, Healing Rituals and Spirits in the Muslim World
