The beauty of the primitive : shamanism and the Western imagination / Andrei A. Znamenski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Znamenski, Andrei A., 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shamanism.

Shamanism--Russia (Federation)--Siberia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (453 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'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.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-423) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-988379-3

1-4356-1958-7

1-281-15646-9

0-19-803849-6

9786611156466

OCLC:

922953425