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The fascinating history of an unknown people A vivid mixture of history and reporting, " The Shaman's Coat&quo

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English Year 2009

The Shaman's Coat
9780802719171, 2002029615, 0802719171

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We think we k

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On the little-known and darker side of shamanism there exists an ancient form of sorcery called kanaimà, a practice stil

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Uses an ethnographic example of ritual violence to illuminate cultural expression more widely and thereby reformulate an

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The traditional folktales and modern-day testimony of the Udege of Russia’s far east. The Udege, a small Indigenous gr

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An Islamic insight to an array of problems such as stress, anxiety and depression. This book offers an in-depth study in

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Prison camp, starvation, execution...all threaten her little family. A true wartime drama based on the experience of Dor

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With their ability to enter trances, to change into the bodies of other creatures, and to fly through the northern skies

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