Over the last century, Western portrayals of shamanism have changed radically toward an ethnopoetics of shamanism. While shamanic practices had long been indirectly registered by Westerners, it is only since the late nineteenth century that they have taken on symbolic import within discourses of primitivism and debates over magic and rationality.
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Table des matières
Introduction 1. Shamanism: a Historical Appraisal 2. The Poetics of Shamanism 3. The Case of Nicholas Black Elk 4. The Case of María Sabina and the Sacred Language of Mushrooms 5. The Case of Carlos Castaneda and Don Juan Conclusion
A propos de l’auteur
Marcel de Lima Santos is Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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Langue Anglais ● Format PDF ● Pages 265 ● ISBN 9781137436405 ● Taille du fichier 6.2 MB ● Maison d’édition Palgrave Macmillan US ● Lieu New York ● Pays US ● Publié 2016 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 5048213 ● Protection contre la copie DRM sociale
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