The beauty of the primitive
Subtitle: shamanism and the Western imagination
By: Andrei A. Znamenski.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780195172317
Subjects: Shamanism; Shamanism -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-423) and index.
Table of contents: title: Enlightenment and romantic writers look at shamans; title: From Siberia to North America: regionalists, anthropologists and exiled ethnographers; title: Neurotics to tribal psychoanalysts: shamans through the eyes of psychology; title: Power plants: psychedelic culture meets tribal spirituality; title: Shamanism goes global: Mircea Eliade and Carlos Castaneda; title: Anthropology, Castaneda's healing fiction, and neo-shamanism print culture; title: Toward the ancient future: shamanism in the modern West; title: Sources of inspiration: from Native Americana to European pagan folklore; title: Back to Siberia: adventures of the metaphor in its motherland.