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Festins d'ames et robes d'esprits. Les objets chamaniques siberiens du Musee de l'Homme.(Review)

Knecht, Peter

BEFFA, MARIE-LISE and LAURENCE DELABY. Festins d'ames et robes d'esprits. Les objets chamaniques siberiens du Musee de l'Homme. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Tome 181, Ethnologie. Paris: Publications Scientifiques du Museum 1999. 242 pages. Illustrations, map, lists of ethnic groups and languages, bibliography Hardcover 350 FF; ISBN 2-85653-513-5; ISSN 1234-4442. (In French with an extensive English summary)

With this publication, the authors make accessible to the public 177 objects related to Siberian shamanism in the Musee de l'Homme. All the objects were ...