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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

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