Pentikäinen, Juha et al. (eds.): ShamanhoodAn Endangered Language Instituttet for sammenlignende kulturforskning The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture (IFSK). Serie B, 117. This volume offers a new, linguistically and ethnographically oriented approach to the phenomenon usually known and defined as shamanism. The conceptual history of shamanism will show how the word shamanism was created under the influence of the Christian world view. Shaman(ism) was identified as the "old