1997. Circumpolar Animism and Shamanism. (eds. Yamada, T. and T. Irimoto) Sapporo，Hokkaido University Press. 336 pp.
Contents
Preface vii
Part I The Ainu and Northern Japan
1. Coexistence with Nature and the “Third Philosophy”: Learning from the Spirit of the Ainu / Masanori Tyooka Atuy 3
2. The Ainu Concept of the Soul / Taryo Obayashi 9
3. Ainu Shamanism: Oral Tradition, Healing, and Dramas / Takashi Irimoto 21
4. Healing Arts of the Itako / Takefusa Sasamori 47
5. Bear Rituals of the Matagi and the Ainu in Northeastern Japan / Kazunobu Ikeya 55
Part II Northern North America
6. World as Event: Aspects of Chipewyan Ontology / David M. Smith 67
7. Non-Directional Time and the Dene Life-Cycle / Henry S. Sharp 93
8. “You Think It’s a Stump But That’s My Grandfather” : Narratives of Transformation in Northern North America / Robin Ridington 105
9. Spiritual Power and Everyday Lives: James Bay Cree Shaking Tent Performers and Their Audiences / Harvey A. Feit 121
10. Personal Names, Name Souls, and Social Change Among Canadian Inuit: A Case Study of the Akulivik Inuit / Nobuhiro Kishigami 151
11. The Human Hand in Yup’ik Eskimo Iconography and Oral Tradition / Ann Fienup-Riordan 167
Part III Northern Eurasia
12. Twenty-five Centuries of Stability and Continuity in the Shamanistic and Animistic Beliefs of the Bering Strait Eskimos / Sergei A. Arutiunov 185
13. Animistic Mythology and Helping Spirits in Siberian Shamanism / Mihály Hoppál 193
14. The Concept of Universe and Spiritual Beings Among Contemporary Yakut Shamans: The Revitalization of Animistic Belief and Shamanic Tradition / Takako Yamada 207
15. Shamanism and Animism: The Values of Nature in the Mind of Northern Peoples / Juha Pentikäinen 229
16. Stone Worship in Mongolian Shamanism / Nacunbuhe 255
17. The Origin of the Cultural Consciousness of Andai / Suyuge 261
18. The Mongolian Perspective on Animal Resources: Analyzing the Ritual of Slaughter / Yuki Konagaya 273
19. Bugha-Noyon-Babay as an Image of a Mixed Shamanic-Buddhist-Orthodox Christian Tradition Among the Buryats of the Tunka District / Natalia Zhukovskaya 279
Part IV Other Perspectives
20. A Possible Neurophysiological Basis of the Visual Images Seen in Shamanism / Akichika Mikami 287
21. Shamanic and Animistic Aspects of African Pygmies’ Cultures / Masato Sawada 297
22. The Ecology of the Animistic Views of the Gidra Papuans / Ryutaro Ohtsuka 309
