Shamans. Siberian Spirituality and the Western Imagination.(Book Review)

Folklore | April 1, 2005| | Copyright

Shamans. Siberian Spirituality and the Western Imagination. By Ronald Hutton. London: Hambledon, 2001. 220 pp. 16.95 [pounds sterling] (hbk). ISBN 1-85295-324-7

In this thorough study, Ronald Hutton, best known as an iconoclastic historian of early modern England, turns his critical eye on the figure of the shaman and the concept of "shamanism."

His work is divided into three parts: "Why we think we know about shamans," "What we think we know about shamans," and "Siberia in the shamanic world." The first of these, which draws on James Forsyth's fine account ...

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