The Beauty of the Primitive: Shamanism and Western ImaginationOxford University Press, 2007 M07 16 - 464 páginas 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 situate their spiritual quests and anti-modernity sentiments. The major characters of The Beauty of the Primitive are past and present Western scholars, writers, explorers, and spiritual seekers with a variety of views on shamanism. Moving from Enlightenment and Romantic writers and Russian exile ethnographers to the anthropology of Franz Boas to Mircea Eliade and Carlos Castaneda, Znamenski details how the shamanism idiom was gradually transplanted from Siberia to the Native American scene and beyond. He also looks into the circumstances that prompted scholars and writers at first to marginalize shamanism as a mental disorder and then to recast it as high spiritual wisdom in the 1960s and the 1970s. Linking the growing interest in shamanism to the rise of anti-modernism in Western culture and intellectual life, Znamenski examines the role that anthropology, psychology, environmentalism, and Native Americana have played in the emergence of neo-shamanism. He discusses the sources that inspire Western neo-shamans and seeks to explain why lately many of these spiritual seekers have increasingly moved away from non-Western tradition to European folklore. A work of intellectual discovery, The Beauty of the Primitive shows how scholars, writers, and spiritual seekers shape their writings and experiences to suit contemporary cultural, ideological, and spiritual needs. With its interdisciplinary approach and engaging style, it promises to be the definitive account of this neglected strand of intellectual history. |
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Página viii
... spiritual seekers who are trying to recover what they describe as ancient, tribal spirituality (which they frequently call shamanism) to resolve modern spiritual problems. Today, shamanic practices, usually in combination with other ...
... spiritual seekers who are trying to recover what they describe as ancient, tribal spirituality (which they frequently call shamanism) to resolve modern spiritual problems. Today, shamanic practices, usually in combination with other ...
Página ix
... spiritual seekers are convinced that shamanism is another name for Native American spirituality. Others use the word ... spiritual power. Finally, many current spiritual seekers see the shaman simply as a person who stays in touch with ...
... spiritual seekers are convinced that shamanism is another name for Native American spirituality. Others use the word ... spiritual power. Finally, many current spiritual seekers see the shaman simply as a person who stays in touch with ...
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... spiritual seekers and academics since the 1960s. Here, I also discuss the emergence of neo-shamanic practices and the current state of shamanism studies. This part of the book is focused mainly on American scholarship and American spiritual ...
... spiritual seekers and academics since the 1960s. Here, I also discuss the emergence of neo-shamanic practices and the current state of shamanism studies. This part of the book is focused mainly on American scholarship and American spiritual ...
Página xi
... spiritual seekers, scholars, and writers call them neoshamanism. In this book, I use this word along with the conventional term shamanism, specifying in each particular case what time period and geographical area I am intending. When ...
... spiritual seekers, scholars, and writers call them neoshamanism. In this book, I use this word along with the conventional term shamanism, specifying in each particular case what time period and geographical area I am intending. When ...
Página xii
... spiritual knowledge can be delivered through a workshop. Although the ''New ... seekers moved away from eclectic reliance on non-Western traditions toward ... spiritual colonizers who feed on indigenous spirituality. I equally disagree ...
... spiritual knowledge can be delivered through a workshop. Although the ''New ... seekers moved away from eclectic reliance on non-Western traditions toward ... spiritual colonizers who feed on indigenous spirituality. I equally disagree ...
Contenido
3 | |
Regionalists Anthropologists and Exiled Ethnographers | 39 |
Shamans through the Eyes of Psychology | 79 |
Psychedelic Culture Meets Tribal Spirituality | 121 |
Mircea Eliade and Carlos Castaneda | 165 |
6 Anthropology Castanedas Healing Fiction and Neoshamanism Print Culture | 205 |
Shamanism in the Modern West | 233 |
From Native Americana to European Pagan Folklore | 273 |
Adventures of the Metaphor in Its Motherland | 321 |
Epilogue | 363 |
Notes | 371 |
Bibliographical Essay | 417 |
Index | 425 |
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The Beauty of the Primitive: Shamanism and Western Imagination Andrei A. Znamenski Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
The Beauty of the Primitive: Shamanism and Western Imagination Andrei A. Znamenski Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
The Beauty of the Primitive: Shamanism and Western Imagination Andrei A. Znamenski Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
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