Siberian shamanism. Ethnocultural Atlas. Zherebina T.V.

Shamanism is one of the oldest and most mysterious religions, the discussions of which do not subside to this day. Of particular difficulty for researchers is the fact that shamanism is based on individual experience: information about such phenomena as shamanic psychotechnics, ritual madness, camlavia, do not accumulate in the form of books and canons, but are the property of a shaman. Possessing a huge baggage of knowledge and abilities - poetic and singing talent, acting, the gift of hoaxes, great chosen ones of spirits are the cultural leaders of their people, accumulating and conveying to relatives of the idea of ​​a person and the world around him.

The book of Tatyana Zherebina - ethnographer, religious scholar, one of the leading specialists in the field of shamanic studies - gives a systematic idea of ​​shamanism as a special phenomenon of culture, its peculiar features in each of the nationalities inhabiting Siberia and the nearest territories.

The publication is addressed to ethnographers, cultural scholars, religious scholars as well as everyone who wants to get to know the diverse forms of Siberian shamanism.