The catalpa bow : a study of shamanistic practices in Japan

Author(s)

• Blacker, Carmen

Bibliographic Information

The catalpa bow : a study of shamanistic practices in Japan

Carmen Blacker

RoutledgeCurzon, 2004, c1999

Note

Reprint. Originally published: Richmond : Japan Library, 1999

Includes bibliographical references (p. 354-367) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This classic work describes shamanic figures surviving in Japan today, their initiatory dreams, ascetic practices, the supernatural beings with whom they communicate, and the geography of the other world in myth and legend.

Table of Contents

1. The Bridge 2. The Sacred Beings 3. Witch Animals 4. The Other World 5. Ascesis 6. The Ancient Sibyl 7. The Living Goddess 8. The Blind Medium 9. The Ascetic's Initiation 10. The Visionary Journey 11. The Symbolic Journey 12. The Ascetic's Power 13. Village Oracles 14. Mountain Oracles 15. Exorcism 16. Conclusion

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Details

• NCID: BA71693250
• ISBN:
  • 1873410859
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 384 p., [16] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 299.56
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Shamanism -- Japan