CIRCUMPOLAR ANIMISM AND SHAMANISM. Edited by TAKAKO YAMADA and TAKASHI IRIMOTO. Sapporo: Hokkaido University Press, 1997. ISBN 4-8329-0252-0. 336 p. maps, bib., index. Hardbound. Yen 18000.
This nicely produced, hardbound volume is a companion to the first collection by Yamada and Irimoto (1994), entitled Circumpolar Religion and Ecology. Like the first volume, it features a rare meeting of ethnographic traditions. Here Japanese scholars working in Siberia, northern Canada, and ...