Cosmology and practice of Siberian shamanism. Elena to us
In the book using numerous ethnographic, folklore and linguistic materials, unique cosmological representations and practices of ritual specialists among the peoples of Siberia are analyzed. The basic characteristics of shamanism are presented in a wide chronological and territorial context with the involvement of a significant number of sources according to the ancient Indo -European and ancient Chinese religious traditions. The author offers his original “reading” and the interpretation of the mental mechanisms of the formation of the spatio-temporal structure of the world, as well as the experience of cultural identification within the framework of shamanistic cultures. The methodological base of the study was comparative historical, structural-semiotic and phenomenological methods. For sociocultural anthropologists, culturalists, religious scholars, as well as all readers interested in the problems of history and theory of culture and religion.
| Characteristics | |
| A country | Russia |
| Age | From 16 years old |
| Author | Elena to us |
| Chapter | Magic and witchcraft |
| Kit | No |
| Number of pages | 512 |
| The year of publishing | 2021 |
| Type of cover | Hard cover |
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