The Beauty of the Primitive: Shamanism and Western Imagination
- ISBN-10
- 0195172310
- ISBN-13
- 9780195172317
- Category
- Body, Mind & Spirit
- Pages
- 434
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-07-12
- Publisher
- OUP USA
- Author
- Andrei A. Znamenski
Description
The Beauty of the Primitive explores how shamanism, an obscure word introduced by the eighteenth-century German explorers of Siberia, entered Western humanities and social sciences, and has now become a powerful idiom used by nature and pagan communities to situate their spiritual quests and anti-modernity sentiments. With its interdisciplinary approach and engaging style, it promises to be the definitive account of this neglected strand of intellectual history.
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- 2007-07-16
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