Title Shamanism : Soviet studies of traditional religion in Siberia and Central Asia / edited by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer

Published Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [1990] ©1990

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Description xviii, 197 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents Introduction / Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer -- Chosen by the spirits / V.N. Basilov -- Shamanism among the Turkic peoples of Siberia / N.A. Alekseev -- Buryat shamanism : history, structure, and social functions / T.M. Mikhailov -- Ritual and folklore in Siberian shamanism : experiment in a comparison of structures / E.S. Novik Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-195) Subject Shamanism -- Study and teaching -- Soviet Union. Shamanism -- Asia, Central. Shamanism -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia. Shamanism. SUBJECT Asia, Central http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008625 -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002007663 Siberia (Russia) -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010112909 Author Balzer, Marjorie Mandelstam. LC no. 89077158 ISBN 0873326245 (alk. paper)

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