The beauty of the primitive : shamanism and the Western imagination /
Andrei A. Znamenski.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- xv, 434 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-423) and index.
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.