According to the author, shamanism is a practice that is alien to dogma and formalism, it is a system that opens up tremendous opportunities for a person to improvise, freedom of knowledge and building their own models of the world.
According to the author, shamanism is a practice that is alien to dogma and formalism, it is a system that opens up tremendous opportunities for a person to improvise, freedom of knowledge and building their own models of the world. The author of the book made such a curious conclusion after studying ethnographic literature and folklore and talking with connoisseurs of tradition. It turned out to be a fascinating study of shamanism, in which (on the example of the peoples of Siberia and the Far North) Alexei Burykin reflects on the essence and purpose of rituals, on the external attributes and personal characteristics of shamans — these amazing mediators between the real and virtual worlds.
ABC classics, Petersburg Oriental Studies, 288 p.