| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Biographical notes -- Section 1 The conceptual debate: the role of gender and religion in shamanic studies -- 1 The shamaness at the threshold: gender, religions and the state in Asia -- 2 The shamaness' new clothes: On the qualities of resisting bodies -- 3 Shamanesses high and low: gender-based relationships to spiritual entities in Siberia -- 4 Retrospectives: what I got wrong in my first book -- 5 Shamanism and gender (in)equality in South and South-East Asia: the Chepang of Nepal and the Semang-Negrito of Peninsular Malaysia -- Section 2 Sociopolitical contexts: exclusion, marginalization, and participation -- 6 Shamans, Islam and the state medical policy in post-Soviet Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan -- 7 From clanic shamaness to Burkhanist messenger: transformations of religious roles of Altaian women (19th-21st centuries) -- 8 "Let me take your pain away": female shamanism in a Central Asian soundscape -- 9 Female shamanhood in Southern Siberia at the turn of the millennium: revival of an ancient archetype, modernization or declining of "traditional" shamanism? -- Section 3 Tensions and syncretism: dynamic entanglements between shamanism and bureaucratic religions -- 10 Women's sociability: the qalandar khona of Khujand (Tajikistan) in the context of political events -- 11 Shamanism and gender construction among the Kavalan of Taiwan: men and women's illness caused by different spirits -- 12 Mirroring values in possession ritual: a biographic-narrative study of female participants in the zār ritual in the Hormozgān province of Iran -- 13 Shamanism in Mongolia: women, mother-earth and the world -- Index.
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