The shamaness in Asia : gender, religions and the state /: gender, religions and the state. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Davide Torri, Sophie Roche.
• Editors: Torri, Davide; Roche, Sophie
• Contents: 1 The Shamaness at the threshold: gender, religions and the state in Asia Sophie Roche and Davide Torri 2 The Shamaness’ New Clothes. On the Qualities of Resisting Bodies Davide Torri 3 Shamanesses High and Low : Gender-based relationships to spiritual entities in Siberia Roberte Hamayon 4 Retrospectives: What I got wrong in my first book Laurel Kendall 5 Shamanism and Gender (In)equality in South and South-east Asia: The Chepang of Nepal and the Semang-Negrito of Peninsular Malaysia Diana Riboli 6 Shamans, Islam and the State Medical Policy in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan Danuta Penkala-Gawęcka 7 From Clanic Shamaness to Burkhanist Messenger Transformations of Religious Roles of Altaian Women (19th-21st centuries) Clément Jacquemoud 8 "Let me take your pain away": Female Shamanism in Central Asian soundscape Razia Sultanova 9 Female Shamanhood in the Southern Siberia at the Turn of Millennium: A Revival of an Ancient Archetype, Modernization or Declining of "Traditional" Shamanism? Galina B. Sychenko 10 Women’s sociability: The qalandar khona of Khujand (Tajikistan) in the context of political events Sophie Roche 11 Shamanism and gender construction among the Kavalan of Taiwan: Men and women’s illness caused by different spirits Pi-chen Liu 12 Mirroring Values in Possession Ritual: A Biographic-Narrative Study of Female Participants in the Zār Ritual in the Hormozgān Province of Iran Maryam Abbasi 13 Shamanism in Mongolia: Women, Mother-Earth and the World Laetitia Merli
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 201.44082095; Shamanism -- Asia; Women shamans -- Asia; Women healers -- Asia; Religion and state -- Asia
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000204544; 9781000204520; 9781000204537; 9780429319808
• Related ISBNs: 9780367279325
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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