{"product_id":"wayward-shamans-9780520275324","title":"Wayward Shamans","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTells 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ultimately, scholars studying a variety of topics will ?nd this book useful.\" American Anthropologist \"The author finely demonstrates how shamans lost their 'historical diversity' and 'gender variability'; Wayward shamans is a highly interesting and rigorous study that should definitely captivate the attention of those interested in the history of religions, of art, and of Western ideas of otherness and their crucial gender dimensions.\" -- Paolo Fortis Jornal of the Royal Anthropological Institute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations       Acknowledgments        Introduction         Chapter 1 Discoveries of an Imaginary Place    Chapter 2 Strange Landscapes, Familiar Magic    Chapter 3 People in a Land Before Time    Chapter 4 The Invention of Siberian Ethnology    Chapter 5 Sex, Gender, and Encounters with Spirits   Chapter 6 Changed Men and Changed Women    Chapter 7: French Connections and the Spirits of Prehistory  Chapter 8: Conclusion        Notes Bibliographic Note References","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402860503383,"sku":"9780520275324","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/wayward-shamans-9780520275324","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}