Title: Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
Author: Mircea Eliade
Publisher: Arkana (Penguin Group)
Date: 1989 (first published in the USA by Pantheon books, 1964)
Length: xxiii + 610 pages
ISBN-10: 0691119422
ISBN-13: 978-0691119427
Format:
Scan quality is not very high, but perfectly readable. The file opens 90 degress rotated, but can be corrected simply by using this command: view - rotate view - clockwise.
Although this is a very famous book, I couldn't find a better copy although I searched a lot.
Book Description:
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 émigré - 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.
MsSVig
Author: Mircea Eliade
Publisher: Arkana (Penguin Group)
Date: 1989 (first published in the USA by Pantheon books, 1964)
Length: xxiii + 610 pages
ISBN-10: 0691119422
ISBN-13: 978-0691119427
Format:
Scan quality is not very high, but perfectly readable. The file opens 90 degress rotated, but can be corrected simply by using this command: view - rotate view - clockwise.
Although this is a very famous book, I couldn't find a better copy although I searched a lot.
Book Desc
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 émigré - 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.
MsSVig