Download or read book Singing Story, Healing Drum written by Kira Van Deusen and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive field-work and including folktales, legends, and shamanic poems that elucidate spiritual traditions as well as descriptions of local rituals, this book guides readers through the often confusing phenomena of the shamanic revival, both in Russia and abroad. It is a travel narrative, history, and an ethnology.