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The beauty of the primitive : shamanism and Western imagination / Andrei A. Znamenski.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Znamenski, Andrei A., 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shamanism.
- Shamanism--Russia (Federation)--Siberia.
- Russia (Federation)--Siberia.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [371]-423) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195172317
- 0195172310
- OCLC:
- 70230615
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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