Shamans

Ronald Hutton is Professor of History at the University of Bristol. As well as several major works on the British Civil War and seventeenth century history he is also the author of the Stations of the Sun, The Triumph of the Moon (Oxford University Press), Shamans: Siberian Spirituality and the Western Imagination and Witches, Druids and King Arthur (both Hambledon).

• Introduction; Part One: Why We Think We Know about Shamans; 1. The Creation of Siberia; 2. The Creation of Siberians; 3. The Transformation of Siberians; 4. The Records of Shamanism; Part Two: What We Think We Know about Shamans; 5. What Shamans Did; 6. Shamanic Cosmologies; 7. Shamanic Apprenticeship and Equipment; 8. Shamanic Performance; 9 Knots and Loose Ends; Part Three: Siberia in the Shamanic World; 10. The Discovery of a Shamanic World; 11. The Discovery of a Shamanic Past; 12. The Discovery of a Shamanic Future; Notes; Bibliography; Index.