Carmen Blacker: 2 books
by Carmen Blacker
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan brings together the work of Carmen Blacker, who wrote extensively on religion, myth and folklore.
The Catalpa Bow
A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This classic work describes shamanic figures surviving in Japan today, their initiatory dreams, ascetic practices, the supernatural beings with whom they communicate, and the geography of the other world in myth and legend.