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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Arkhaicheskoe Soznanie, Mirovozrenie Shamanizma, Traditsionnoe Vrachevanie i Rasteniia-Uchitelia
[ The sacred universe of shamans : Archaic consciousness, world outlook of shamanism, traditional healing and herb teachers]
St. Petersburg: Akademiia issledovaniia kul`tury, 2012 368 p pbk. 14 x 21 cm ISBN: 9785903931293 Language: Russian
This book by a leading specialist in shamanism is a complex study of this phenomenon and religion. It includes: historical reports, the main religious concepts (fetishes), explanation of the shaman`s consciousness in terms of "imprint" and formation specific cognitive abilities of a shaman. The author met shamans in Peru, Ecuador, Columbia, India, Nepal, and Siberia, and shares with us his experience of communicating with them, his observations and photographs. Profusely illustrated. (0.475 kg.)
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