ISBN:
0195172310
,
9780195172317
Language:
English
Pages:
XV, 434 S
,
Ill., Kt
,
24 cm
DDC:
201/.44
Keywords:
Shamanism
;
Shamanism
;
Sibirien
;
Schamanismus
;
Rezeption
;
Westliche Welt
Abstract:
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 culture meets tribal spirituality -- Shamanism goes global: Mircea Eliade and Carlos Castaneda -- Anthropology, Castaneda's healing fiction, and neo-shamanism print culture -- 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
Description / Table of Contents:
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 culture meets tribal spirituality -- Shamanism goes global: Mircea Eliade and Carlos Castaneda -- Anthropology, Castaneda's healing fiction, and neo-shamanism print culture -- 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-423) and index
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0616/2006020524.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0723/2006020524-b.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0723/2006020524-d.html
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