Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy

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Princeton University Press, 2004/02/08 - 610 ページ

First published in 1951, Shamanism soon became the standard work in the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. Writing as the founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Romanian émigré--scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) surveys the practice of Shamanism over two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the Shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia--where Shamanism was first observed--to North and South America, Indonesia, Tibet, China, and beyond. In this authoritative survey, Eliade illuminates the magico-religious life of societies that give primacy of place to the figure of the Shaman--at once magician and medicine man, healer and miracle-doer, priest, mystic, and poet. Synthesizing the approaches of psychology, sociology, and ethnology, Shamanism will remain for years to come the reference book of choice for those intrigued by this practice.

 

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Election among the Buryat and the Teleut 75 The Shamans
88
for Shamanic Powers in North America
99
Shamanic Initiation 1 1
115
Symbolism of the Shamans Costume and Drum
145
The Buryat Costume 149 The Altaic Costume 152
156
Bones 16O Shamanic Masks 165 The Shamanic Drum
176
The Shamans Functions 181 Black and White
205
KazakKirgiz 217The Shamanic Séance among the Ugrians
236
Southeast Asian and Oceanian Shamanism
337
and the Jakun 337 Shamanism in the Andaman Islands
355
Shamanic Ideologies and Techniques among
375
Preliminary Remarks 375Techniques of Ecstasy among
403
412Shamanic Symbolisms and Techniques in India
412
414Shamanism among the Aboriginal Tribes of India
421
Shamanic Symbolisms and Techniques in Tibet
428
Buddhism Tantrism Lamaism 428Shamanic Practices
444

Orochi 236Tukagir Shamanism 245 Religion and Sha
252
Shamanism and Cosmology
259
Shamanism in North and South America
288
The Shamanic Séance in North America
300
Mongolia Korea Japan
461
Heat 474Magical Flight 477 The Bridge and
487
Conclusions
495
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Born in Bucharest, Rumania, Mircea Eliade studied at the University of Bucharest and, from 1928 to 1932, at the University of Calcutta with Surendranath Dasgupta. After taking his doctorate in 1933 with a dissertation on yoga, he taught at the University of Bucharest and, after the war, at the Sorbonne in Paris. From 1957, Eliade was a professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago. He was at the same time a writer of fiction, known and appreciated especially in Western Europe, where several of his novels and volumes of short stories appeared in French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. Two Tales of the Occult "to relate some yogic techniques, and particularly yogic folklore, to a series of events narrated in the genre of a mystery story." Both Nights of Serampore and The Secret of Dr. Honigberger evoke the mythical geography and time of India. Mythology, fantasy, and autobiography are skillfully combined in Eliade's tales.

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