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Shamans throughout much of Asia are regarded as having the power to control and coerce spirits. Many Asians today still turn to shamans to communicate with the world of the dead, heal the sick, and explain enigmatic events. To understand Asian religions, therefore, a knowledge of shamanism is essential. Shamans in Asia provides an introduction to the study of shamans and six ethnographic studies, each of which describes and analyses the lives and activities of shamans in five different regions: Siberia, China, Korea, and the Ryukyu islands of southern Japan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The essays show what type of people become shamans, what social roles they play, and how shamans actively draw from the worldviews of the communities in which they operate. As the first book in English to provide in-depth accounts of shamans from different regions of Asia, it allows students and scholars to view the diversity and similarities of shamans and their religions. Those interested in spiritual specialists, the anthropological study of religion, and local religions in Asia will be intrigued, if not entranced, by Shamans in Asia.

Shamans in Asia

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  • Author : Clark Chilson
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Genre : History
  • Total Pages : 207 pages
  • ISBN : 1134434251
  • PDF File Size : 8,7 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews

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Shamans in Asia

Shamans in Asia
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 39,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 08 December 2003
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Spirit Voices

Spirit Voices
  • Publisher : Weiser Books
  • File Size : 23,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 01 May 2023
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Provides a clear and accessible guide to the many different North Asian shamanic traditions, past and present. What is shamanism? Where is it from? How does one become a shaman?

Sultans, Shamans, and Saints

Sultans, Shamans, and Saints
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • File Size : 26,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 31 January 2007
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By the fourteenth century the Islamic faith had spread via maritime trade routes to Southeast Asia where, over the next seven hundred years, it would have a continuing influence on

The Shamaness in Asia

The Shamaness in Asia
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 23,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 08 October 2020
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This book concentrates on female shamanisms in Asia and their relationship with the state and other religions, offering a perspective on gender and shamanism that has often been neglected in

Shamanic Worlds

Shamanic Worlds
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 44,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 16 September 2016
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The ancient heartland of shamanism is no longer forbidden territory - to travelers or to the spirits. But the spirits never left the vastnesses of Siberia and Central Asia, as

Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF

Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • File Size : 25,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 01 September 2009
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Thirty years ago, anthropologist Laurel Kendall did intensive fieldwork among South Korea’s (mostly female) shamans and their clients as a reflection of village women’s lives. In the intervening

Shamanism and the Origin of States

Shamanism and the Origin of States
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 44,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 23 July 2019
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Sarah Milledge Nelson’s bold thesis is that the development of states in East Asia—China, Japan, Korea—was an outgrowth of the leadership in smaller communities guided by shamans.

Shamanism

Shamanism
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 36,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 22 July 2016
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Addresses the most important theoretical and practical problems underlying public budgeting. This anthology is organized topically rather than historically, with an effort to delineate the issues needed to understand some

Animal and Shaman

Animal and Shaman
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • File Size : 49,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 22 October 2012
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"Animal and Shaman, a comparative study of the indigenous pre-Christian and pre-Muslim religions of Central Asia, describes a common inheritance among the beliefs of the various peoples who have lived