The Ethnopoetics of Shamanism

The Ethnopoetics of Shamanism
ISBN-10
1137436409
ISBN-13
9781137436405
Category
Social Science
Pages
265
Language
English
Published
2016-04-30
Publisher
Springer
Authors
M. Santos, Marcel de Lima

Description

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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