Chamanismos En El Mundo Actual [Spanish]

By Carlos Hugo Sierra

Shamanism is a fascinating human practice endowed with great complexity that reflects, in the manner of its contemporary and historical manifestations, the patriarchal culture of the indigenous peoples all over the world - from the heart of the amazon jungle to the harsh Northern expanses of the Siberian steppes, from the ancestral peoples of rural South Africa to the arid mountains of the Musgrave in central Australia. With all of them, the universal application and the current use of the term 'shamanism' can lead to a false idea of uniformity, which is far removed from the profound and extreme disparity that characterizes, in reality, this type of traditional experience. Maybe this has been one of the reasons why, in recent decades, the universal view of global Shamanism has become a significant object of study for multiple academic disciplines, such as anthropology, ethnic history, archaeology, and ethno-botany, and that has aroused, in its turn, a surprising curiosity among the public in general. Nevertheless, the knowledge of Shamanism continues to be a matter so little accessible or understood that it is very often misinterpreted, especially when treated from the point of view of the modern West. This multidisciplinary volume tries to dissipate some of the misunderstandings or distortions existing around the enigmatic world of Shamanism, and presents a broad view of the subject that gives an account of the recent advances, at the theory level and in field work, in the studies about Shamanism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 8416032009
• ISBN13: 9788416032006
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Plaza Y Valdes
• Length: 372 Pages