Academic literature on the topic 'Shamans – Northwest, Pacific'

Author: Grafiati

Published: 4 June 2021

Last updated: 11 February 2022

Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles

Select a source type:

Consult the lists of relevant articles, books, theses, conference reports, and other scholarly sources on the topic 'Shamans – Northwest, Pacific.'

Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.

You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.

Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Shamans – Northwest, Pacific"

Barazzuol, Richard A. "The Tlingit land otter complex : coherence in the social and shamanic order." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28577.

Full text

Abstract:

This thesis deals with Tlingit notions about death, spirits, land otters and shamans. The linkage between these categories and their relationship to the social order are explored by examining Tlingit mythology. Particular myths are analyzed that embody the concepts and beliefs which the Tlingit used to deal with the unanswerable question: What happens when someone dies? Socially, there was a set pattern of ritual practices and a series of memorial feasts to dispense with the body and spirit of someone who died a normal death. Yet, there was an anomalous situation associated with death by drown