Shamanism: Soviet Studies of Traditional Religion in Siberia and Central Asia [Hardcover]

Addresses the most important theoretical and practical problems underlying public budgeting. This anthology is organized topically rather than historically, with an effort to delineate the issues needed to understand some of the controversies in the field. It describes what public budgeting is, where it comes from, and what it is for.Addresses the most important theoretical and practical problems underlying public budgetingIntroduction, Chosen by the Spirits, Shamanism among the Turkic Peoples of Siberia: Shamans and Their Religious Practices, Buryat Shamanism: History, Structure, and Social Functions, Ritual and Folklore in Siberian Shamanism: Experiment in a Comparison of Structures The Archaic Epic and Its Relationship to Ritual, Bibliography, About the EditorUSCopyright ? 1990 Taylor & Francis.