Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (Arkana S.) - Softcover

Eliade, Mircea; Trask, R. L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140191550 ISBN 13: 9780140191554

Publisher: Penguin, 1989

Synopsis

arkhana pbk,1989

About this title

Review:

"Eliade writes of the shamans with that masterly combination of sympathy and detachment. . . . . [His] findings will almost certainly be echoed by great voices of the future."--New York Times Book Review

"Eliade is the most informative guide to the modern mythologies."--Frank Kermode, New Statesman

"[A] close and detailed yet comparative study of shamanism. . . . [It] has become the standard work on the subject and justifies its claim to be the first book to study the phenomenon over a wide field and in a properly religious context."--Times Literary Supplement

"Clearly the best work on Shamanism published so far."--The Review of Religion

About the Author:

Born in Bucharest in 1907, Mircea Eliade was for many years Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. He is author of, among other books, "Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism, Myth of the Eternal Return", and "Yoga: Immortality and Freedom" (all Princeton). Wendy Doniger is Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. Her books include "The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade, The Implied Spider", and "Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India". Her translations of such texts as "The Rig Veda, The Law of Manu", and the "Kamasutra" have garnered wide praise.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0140191550
• ISBN 13: 9780140191554
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640