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 of Content
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
About the author
Marcel de Lima Santos is Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 265 ● ISBN 9781137436405 ● File size 6.2 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US ● City New York ● Country US ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5048213 ● Copy protection Social DRM
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