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Shamans and Elders: Experience, Knowledge, and Power Among the Daur Mongols by Caroline Humphrey β€” book cover

Shamans and Elders: Experience, Knowledge, and Power Among the Daur Mongols

by Caroline Humphrey, Urgunge Onon
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Overview

This work is a ground breaking study of Mongolian shamanism and society, past and present. Lavishly illustrated and containing a wealth of new information, it presents a fresh understanding of the widespread phenomenon of shamanism. It looks at gender and ritual, female shamans and goddess worship, death and funeral rituals, the importance of old men and ancestors, and Daur notions of landscape within their direct experience and beyond.

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This work is a ground breaking study of Mongolian shamanism and society, past and present. Lavishly illustrated and containing a wealth of new information, it presents a fresh understanding of the widespread phenomenon of shamanism. It looks at gender and ritual, female shamans and goddess worship, death and funeral rituals, the importance of old men and ancestors, and Daur notions of landscape within their direct experience and beyond.

About the Author, Caroline Humphrey

Cambridge University

Cambridge University

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Book Details

Published
May 1, 1996
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Pages
416
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780198280682

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