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Wayward Shamans: The Prehistory of an Idea Silvia Tomaskova
Wayward Shamans: The Prehistory of an Idea
Silvia Tomaskova
Tells the story of an idea that humanity's expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, this title follows the trajectory of European knowledge about continent's eastern frontier.
288 pages, 20 b/w photographs
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | May 3, 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9780520275324 |
| Publishers | University of California Press |
| Pages | 288 |
| Dimensions | 153 × 228 × 18 mm · 390 g |