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The beauty of the primitive : shamanism and the Western imagination / Andrei A. Znamenski.

By: Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.Description: xv, 434 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780195172317 (alk. paper)
  • 0195172310
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 201/.44 22
LOC classification:
  • BL2370.S5 Z53 2007
Online resources:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks BL2370 .S5 Z53 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001019172

Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-423) and index.

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.

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