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Shamanism and the Origin of States: Spirit, Power, and Gender in East Asia
Sarah Milledge Nelson
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| #884619 in Books | Left Coast Press | 2008-07-17 | 2008-07-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.60 x6.00l,.90 | File type: PDF | 303 pages | ||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| In depth|By Teresa H. Garcia|I appreciated the depth that went into this book, and the pictures that were included. This book took me a while to get through, to be sure that I absorbed and processed all the information accurately. I did use it for reference material in one of my recent papers, which proved very helpful to me given the specialty of some of my studies. I found||"In this book Sarah Milledge Nelson suggests that shamanism was a significant building block for state formation in East Asia, and that women, who often had the shamanistic access to the spirit world, played an important role in this process. She shows how thi
Sarah Milledge Nelson’s bold thesis is that the development of states in East Asia―China, Japan, Korea―was an outgrowth of the leadership in smaller communities guided by shamans. Using a mixture of historical documents, mythology, archaeological data, and ethnographic studies of contemporary shamans, she builds a case for shamans being the driving force behind the blossoming of complex societies. More interesting, shamans in East Asia are generally women, who...
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