Photographs .................................................... ix
Credits and Confessions ........................................ xi
Introduction: Shamans, Spirituality, and Cultural
Revitalization .................................................. 1
Chapter 1
Sacred Trust: Ethnography as Renewed Relationships ............. 15
Chapter 2
Spirits Under Siege: Shamanic Communities of the North ......... 35
Chapter 3
Doctors or Deceivers? .......................................... 57
Chapter 4
Poetics of Sacred Language Through Time and Space .............. 79
Chapter 5
Flights of the Sacred: Birds, Trees, and Open-Body-
Mindedness .................................................... 107
Chapter 6
Urban Shamans? Unmasking Leadership and Creativity ............ 131
Chapter 7
Sustainable Faith? Multiple Generations of Healing and
Spirituality .................................................. 163
Chapter 8
Social Medicine? Religious Movements in the Siberian Far
East .......................................................... 183
Reflections ................................................... 211
Notes ......................................................... 229
References .................................................... 251
Index ......................................................... 277
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