Dragos Gheorghiu, Emilia Pasztor, Herman Bender, and George Nash (eds.) ARCHAEOLOGICAL APPROACH TO SHAMANISM: Mind-Body, Nature, and Culture By Emilia Pasztor

https://www.academia.edu/9427872/Dragos_Gheorghiu_Emilia_Pasztor_Herman_Bender_and_George_Nash_eds_ARCHAEOLOGICAL_APPROACH_TO_SHAMANISM_Mind_Body_Nature_and_Culture?nav_from=9ece4026-bb70-4381-8edd-278164266001 This book discusses both ancient and modern shamanism, demonstrating its longevity and spatial distribution, and is divided into eleven thought-provoking chapters that are organised into three sections: mind-body, nature, and culture. It discusses the clear associations with this sometimes little-understood ritualised practice, and asks what shamanism is and if tangible evidence can be extracted from a largely fragmentary archaeological record. The book offers a novel portrayal of the material culture of shamanism by collating carefully selected studies by specialists from three different continents, promoting a series of new perspectives on this idiosyncratic and sometimes intangible phenomenon.