Authors: Caroline Humphrey, Urgunge Onon
ISBN-13: 9780198280682, ISBN-10: 0198280688
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: May 1996
Edition: 1st Edition
Cambridge University
Cambridge University
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.
List of Plates | ||
Maps | ||
A Note on the Text | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Sketches of the World of Youth | 11 |
2 | In Daur Landscapes | 76 |
3 | Space and Time Beyond the Village | 119 |
4 | Male and Female Traditions in Ritual | 141 |
5 | Shamans and Shamanship | 183 |
6 | Shamans in Society and History | 261 |
7 | 'Shamanism' in Twentieth-Century History | 320 |
8 | Urgunge's Way | 357 |
References | 365 | |
Index | 383 |