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Carmen Blacker
The Catalpa Bow [EPUB ebook]
A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan

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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.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 384 ● ISBN 9781135318727 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2004 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5298200 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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