The beauty of the primitive : shamanism and the Western imagination
'The Beauty of the Primitive' explores how shamanism, an obscure word introduced by the 18th 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
1 online resource (xv, 434 pages) : illustrations
9780195172317, 9780198038498, 9780199785759, 0195172310, 0198038496, 0199785759
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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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