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Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology) (Reprint Edition) by Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask (Translator), Wendy Doniger (Foreword), Princeton University Press Paperback, 648 Pages, Published 2004 ISBN-10: 0-691-11942-2 / 0691119422 ISBN-13: 978-0-691-11942-7 / 9780691119427 First published in 1951, "Shamanism" soon became the standard work in the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. Writing as the founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Romanian emigre--scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) surveys the practice of Shamanism over two and a ha |