George Nash

Herman Bender

Dragos Gheorghiu

Emilia Pasztor

Lands of the Shamans, through carefully selected case studies from Europe, uses the archaeological evidence to construct the shamans' worldview, landscape, and cosmology.

Archaeology, Landscape and Cosmology

Lands of the Shamans

Dragoş Gheorghiu

Emilia Pásztor

This long awaited book discusses both ancient and modern shamanism, demonstrating its longevity and spatial distribution. The book is divided into eleven thought-provoking chapters that are organised into three sections: mind-body, nature, and culture. It discusses the clear associations with this sometimes little-understood ritualised practice, and asks what shamanism is and if tangible evidence can be extracted from a largely fragmentary archaeological record. The book offers a novel portrayal of the material culture of shamanism by collating carefully selected studies by specialists from three different continents, promoting a series of new perspectives on this idiosyncratic and sometimes intangible phenomenon.

Mind-Body, Nature, and Culture

Archaeological Approaches to Shamanism

Herman Bender

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