Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade moon the coca leaves used often

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Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade moon the coca leaves used oftenFirst published in 1951, "Shamanism" soon became the standard work in the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. Writing as the founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Romanian emigre scholar Mircea Eliade (1907 1986) surveys the practice of Shamanism over two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the Shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia where Shamanism was first observed to North and South