| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 434 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-423) and index |
| Subject |
Shamanism.
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Shamanism -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
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Shamanism
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shamanism.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Shamanism.
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Shamanism
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Russia (Federation) |
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Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780195172317 |
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0195172310 |
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9780198038498 |
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0198038496 |
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9780199785759 |
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0199785759 |
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