Beauty of the Primitive Shamanism and Western Imagination

Name: Beauty of the Primitive Shamanism and Western Imagination
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ISBN: 9780195172317

ISBN-10: 0195172310

ISBN-13: 9780195172317

Edition: 2007

Authors: Andrei A. Znamenski

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For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. There is an enormous literature on shamanism, but no one has tried to understand why and how Western intellectual and popular culture became so fascinated with the topic. Behind fictional and non-fictional works on shamanism, Andrei A. Znamenski uncovers an exciting story that mirrors changing Western attitudes toward the primitive. The Beauty of the Primitive explores how shamanism, an obscure word introduced by the eighteenth-century German explorers of Siberia, entered Western humanities and social sciences, and has now become a powerful idiom used by nature and pagan communities to…

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List price: $81.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/16/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.30" long x 1.61" tall
Weight: 1.958
Language: English



Preface



Enlightenment and Romantic Writers Look at Shamans



From Siberia to North America: Regionalists, Anthropologists and "Exiled" Ethnographers



Neurotics to Tribal Psychoanalysts: Shamans through the Eyes of Psychology



Power Plants: Psychedelic Scholarship Meets "Tribal" Spirituality



Shamanism Goes Global: Mircea Eliade and Carlos Castaneda



Castaneda's Lessons, Anthropology, and "Tales of Power"



Toward the Ancient Future: Shamanism in the Modern West



Sources of Inspiration: from Native Americana to European Pagan Folklore



Back to Siberia: Adventures of the Metaphor in Its Motherland


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliographical


Essay