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

Author/creator Znamenski, Andrei A., 1960-
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Descriptionxv, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [371]-423) and index.
LCCN 2006020524
ISBN9780195172317 (alk. paper)
ISBN0195172310

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Joyner General Stacks BL2370.S5 Z53 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold