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Article: Circumpolar animism and shamanism.
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- Arctic
- Article date:
- March 1, 1999
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CIRCUMPOLAR ANIMISM AND SHAMANISM. Edited by TAKAKO YAMADA and TAKASHI IRIMOTO. Sapporo: Hokkaido University Press, 1997. ISBN 4-8329-0252-0. 336 p. maps, bib., index. Hardbound. Yen 18000.
This nicely produced, hardbound volume is a companion to the first collection by Yamada and Irimoto (1994), entitled Circumpolar Religion and Ecology. Like the first volume, it features a rare meeting of ethnographic traditions. Here Japanese scholars working in Siberia, northern Canada, and Hokkaido share their thoughts on the nature of "circumpolar" ritual with Russian and European authors, comparative ethnologists, and North American anthropologists working to develop an ...