Shamanism : a reader / edited by Graham Harvey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harvey, Graham, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shamanism.

Physical Description:

xv, 461 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2002.

Summary:

"Shamanism: A Reader" unites perspectives from disciplines including anthropology, psychology, musicology, botany to provide a unique overview of modern writing on shamanism. From grassroots political writing to classical ethnographies, and imaginative narratives to detailed case studies, the 25 articles and short extracts presented here cover topics including gender, initiation, hallucinogenic consciousness and political protest. Juxtaposing the traditional practices of indigenous peoples with their new and often radically urban reinterpretations, experts including Michael Harner, Milhaly Hoppal, Majorie M Balzer and Piers Vitebsky raise questions about constructions of shamanism, its efficacy, its use and misuse as a cultural symbol, and its real nature.

Contents:

Part 1 Initiation 25

1 How Sereptie Djarvoskin of the Nganasans (Tavgi Samoyeds) Became a Shaman / Sereptie Djarvoskin, transcribed by Popov 31

2 Discovering the Way / Michael Harner 41

Part 2 Shamanising 57

3 Game and Games, Fortune and Dualism in Siberian Shamanism / Roberte N. Hamayon 63

4 Possession and Public Morality: II Other Cosmological Systems / Ioan M. Lewis 69

5 Ojibway Shamanism / John A. Grim 92

6 The New Anthropology of Dreaming / Barbara Tedlock 103

7 Submitting / Alan T. Campbell 123

8 The Reality of Spirits / Edith Turner 145

Part 3 Aesthetics 153

9 Like People in Prehistory / Thomas A. Dowson 159

10 The Artistry and Ritual Aesthetics of Urban Korean Shamans / Chungmoo Choi 170

11 Remembering to Forget: The Aesthetics of Longing / Marina Roseman 186

12 Ethnographic Films on Shamanism / Mihaly Hoppal 203

Part 4 Context 221

13 Urgunge's Way / Caroline Humphrey, Urgunge Onon 226

14 Rethinking Inuit Shamanism Through the Concept of 'Third Gender' / Bernard Saladin d'Anglure 235

15 Sacred Genders in Siberia: Shamans, Bear Festivals, and Androgyny / Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer 242

16 Toughness and Tenderness in the Wild Man's Lair: The Everyday as Impenetrable, the Impenetrable as Everyday / Michael Taussig 262

17 From Cosmology to Environmentalism: Shamanism as Local Knowledge in a Global Setting / Piers Vitebsky 276

Part 5 New Developments 299

18 The Poetry of Shamanism / Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer 307

19 Spiritual Hucksterism: The Rise of the Plastic Medicine Men / Ward Churchill 324

20 Shamanism from Ecuador to Chicago: A Case Study in New Age Ritual Appropriation / Paul C. Johnson 334

21 Tracking Lost Souls / Sandra Ingerman 355

22 Dancing on the Edge: Shamanism in Modern Britain / Gordon MacLellan 365

23 The Tree, the Tower and the Shaman: The Material Culture of Resistance of the No M11 Link Roads Protest of Wanstead and Leytonstone, London / Beverley Butler 375

24 Waking Ancestor Spirits: Neo-Shamanic Engagements with Archaeology / Robert J. Wallis 402

25 A Brief History of Psychedelics / Terence McKenna 424.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415253292

0415253306

OCLC:

54790031