The catalpa bow: A study of shamanistic practices in Japan

By Carmen Blacker

Book Overview

This classic work describes shamanic figures surviving in Japan today, their initiatory dreams, ascetic practices, the supernatural beings with whom they communicate, and the geography of the other... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 004398004X
• ISBN13: 9780043980040
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: George Allen & Unwin LTD
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.