The beauty of the primitive : shamanism and the Western imagination / Andrei A. Znamenski.
Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.Description: xv, 434 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780195172317 (alk. paper)
- 0195172310
- 201/.44 22
- BL2370.S5 Z53 2007
Contents:
Title Notes:
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-423) and index.