Archaeological approaches to shamanism: mind-body, nature, and culture, edited by Dragoş Gheorghiu, Emilia Pásztor, Herman Bender and George Nash, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, 281 pp., £61.99 (hb), ISBN: 978-1-5275-0007-5 By Herman E Bender

https://www.academia.edu/81541941/Archaeological_approaches_to_shamanism_mind_body_nature_and_culture_edited_by_Drago%C5%9F_Gheorghiu_Emilia_P%C3%A1sztor_Herman_Bender_and_George_Nash_Newcastle_Cambridge_Scholars_Publishing_2017_281_pp_61_99_hb_ISBN_978_1_5275_0007_5?nav_from=552c9155-3091-473d-8a8f-1372cf17dcc3 There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's insanity. You go around the circle to sanity, and on the other end of the circle, close to insanity, but not insanity, is unsanity.' This quotation is perhaps more familiar to followers of late-1990s counterculture than to Classical scholars, but it would have formed a fitting epigram to Ustinova's study of mania in Ancient Greece 1 .