Pierre Déléage is an anthropologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He has conducted ethnographic research on shamanism among the Sharanahua in the Amazon, investigated the invention of writing systems by Indigenous peoples in North America, and explored the limits of scientific objectification. He is the author of several books in French, including Lettres mortes: Essai d’anthropologie inversée, Inventer l’écriture, and Le Chant de l’anaconda: L’apprentissage du chamanisme chez les Sharanahua.

"Take a young priest from his native France, throw him into the depths of the Arctic snow among 'savages,' and see what happens. Déléage follows Petitot's steps toward insanity and finds his legacy in a wealth of linguistic and ethnographic materials. A great little book."

• FrontispieceIllustrationsChapter 1. Persecution Mania: A Missionary among the First NationsChapter 2. Interpretation Delusions: Israelites of the North PoleChapter 3. Prophetic Frenzy: Anticipating the End TimesNotesBibliography

Pierre Déléage is an anthropologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He has conducted ethnographic research on shamanism among the Sharanahua in the Amazon, investigated the invention of writing systems by Indigenous peoples in North America, and explored the limits of scientific objectification. He is the author of several books in French, including Lettres mortes: Essai d’anthropologie inversée, Inventer l’écriture, and Le Chant de l’anaconda: L’apprentissage du chamanisme chez les Sharanahua.

"Take a young priest from his native France, throw him into the depths of the Arctic snow among 'savages,' and see what happens. Déléage follows Petitot's steps toward insanity and finds his legacy in a wealth of linguistic and ethnographic materials. A great little book."

• FrontispieceIllustrationsChapter 1. Persecution Mania: A Missionary among the First NationsChapter 2. Interpretation Delusions: Israelites of the North PoleChapter 3. Prophetic Frenzy: Anticipating the End TimesNotesBibliography

Pierre Déléage is an anthropologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He has conducted ethnographic research on shamanism among the Sharanahua in the Amazon, investigated the invention of writing systems by Indigenous peoples in North America, and explored the limits of scientific objectification. He is the author of several books in French, including Lettres mortes: Essai d’anthropologie inversée, Inventer l’écriture, and Le Chant de l’anaconda: L’apprentissage du chamanisme chez les Sharanahua.

"Take a young priest from his native France, throw him into the depths of the Arctic snow among 'savages,' and see what happens. Déléage follows Petitot's steps toward insanity and finds his legacy in a wealth of linguistic and ethnographic materials. A great little book."

• FrontispieceIllustrationsChapter 1. Persecution Mania: A Missionary among the First NationsChapter 2. Interpretation Delusions: Israelites of the North PoleChapter 3. Prophetic Frenzy: Anticipating the End TimesNotesBibliography