Шаманизъм

by Klaus E. Müller

Genres: Religion, German Literature, Nonfiction

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Prof. Dr. em. Klaus E. Müller was born in Dortmund in 1935. After coming into contact with Anthropology through Hermann Baumann, Müller decided to take up his studies at the Institute for Ethnology and African Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich in 1959. He finished his habilitation thesis in 1970 and eventually took up a professorship at the Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Frankfurt University in 1971.

Reviews

[Norbert Staszak · Rating 2 out of 5]

I cannot trust this source. I wish all descriptions were marked geographically. There is little precise knowledge you can gain while reading the book, as you do not know which culture is referred to. Too pop sciency with too many repetitions of the obvious.
I wish the author told me why in his opinion there is no shamanism in Africa and why he put "sic" in a quote that described shamanism as a religion.
Also I wish the book described to a greater extent other people involved in shamanism besides the shaman.

[Rasool Pashmaki · Rating 3 out of 5]

این کتاب ترجمه شده و ترجمه روانی هم هست، توسط نشر حکمت چاپ شده.
نکات جالبیو درباره نه فقط شمنیسم، که درباره تحولات باور به عالم روحانی و ثنویت درطول تاریخ چندهزارساله بشر میده. به بررسی مختصر کتابهای مشابه تو این زمینه مثل کتاب میرچا الیاده، که بنظر آغازگر توجه به شمنیسم از دریچه مردم شناسی و روان شناختی هست، هم پرداخته.

[Aneliya · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like it very much. I have read about this practise in the book "The healing power of the drum".
Here rhe author had collected more information not only for Siberian shamans but for SA indian shamans, escimos etc. The life of a shaman is described in details from his initiation to hes death.
Myths, reality and fate connected with shaman life impressed me!
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