Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century
Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century

Author: Gloria Flaherty

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2014-07-14

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1400862647

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Pursuing special experiences that take them to the brink of permanent madness or death, men and women in every age have "returned" to heal and comfort their fellow human beings--and these shamans have fascinated students of society from Herodotus to Mircea Eliade. Gloria Flaherty's book is about the first Western encounters with shamanic peoples and practices. Flaherty makes us see the eighteenth century as an age in which explorers were fascinating all Europe with tales of shamans who accomplished a "self-induced cure for a self-induced fit." Reports from what must have seemed a forbidden world of strange rites and moral licentiousness came from botanists, geographers, missionaries, and other travelers of the period, and these accounts created such a stir that they permeated caf talk, journal articles, and learned debates, giving rise to plays, encyclopedia articles, art, and operas about shamanism. The first part of the book describes in rich detail how information about shamanism entered the intellectual mainstream of the eighteenth century. In the second part Flaherty analyzes the artistic and critical implications of that process. In so doing, she offers remarkable chapters on Diderot, Herder, Goethe, and the cult of the genius of Mozart, as well as a chapter devoted to a new reading of Goethe's Faust that views Faust as the modern shaman. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Genealogies of Shamanism
Genealogies of Shamanism

Author: Jeroen W Boekhoven

Publisher: Barkhuis

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 907792292X

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Cover -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Approaching shamanism -- 2 Eighteenth and nineteenth-century interpretations -- 3 Early twentieth-century American interpretations -- 4 Twentieth-century European constructions -- 5 The Bollingen connection, 1930s-1960s -- 6 Post-war American visions -- 7 The genesis of a field of shamanism, America 1960s-1990s -- 8 A Case Study: Shamanisms in the Netherlands -- 9 Struggles for power, charisma and authority: a balance -- Bibliography -- Index

Inuit Shamanism and Christianity
Inuit Shamanism and Christianity

Author: Frédéric B. Laugrand

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 0773576363

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Using archival material and oral testimony collected during workshops in Nunavut between 1996 and 2008, Frédéric Laugrand and Jarich Oosten provide a nuanced look at Inuit religion, offering a strong counter narrative to the idea that traditional Inuit culture declined post-contact. They show that setting up a dichotomy between a past identified with traditional culture and a present involving Christianity obscures the continuity and dynamics of Inuit society, which has long borrowed and adapted "outside" elements. They argue that both Shamanism and Christianity are continually changing in the Arctic and ideas of transformation and transition are necessary to understand both how the ideology of a hunting society shaped Inuit Christian cosmology and how Christianity changed Inuit shamanic traditions.

Shamanism
Shamanism

Author: Andrei A. Znamenski

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780415332491

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First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

An Introduction to Shamanism
An Introduction to Shamanism

Author: Thomas A. DuBois

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-05-14

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 0521873533

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This Introduction surveys the beliefs, rituals and techniques found in shamanic traditions around the world.

Wayward Shamans
Wayward Shamans

Author: Silvia Tomášková

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2013-05-03

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0520275322

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Wayward Shamans tells the story of an idea that humanity’s first expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, the work follows the trajectory of European knowledge about the continent’s eastern frontier. The ethnographic record left by German natural historians engaged in the Russian colonial expansion project in the 18th century includes a range of shamanic practitioners, varied by gender and age. Later accounts by exiled Russian revolutionaries noted transgendered shamans. This variation vanished, however, in the translation of shamanism into archaeology theory, where a male sorcerer emerged as the key agent of prehistoric art. More recent efforts to provide a universal shamanic explanation for rock art via South Africa and neurobiology likewise gloss over historical evidence of diversity. By contrast this book argues for recognizing indeterminacy in the categories we use, and reopening them by recalling their complex history.

Shamanism and Northern Ecology
Shamanism and Northern Ecology

Author: Juha Pentikäinen

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-07-11

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 3110811677

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The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems– both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.

Studies in Lapp Shamanism
Studies in Lapp Shamanism

Author: Louise Bäckman

Publisher:

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13:

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An analysis of Lapp shamanism based on seventeenth and eighteenth century sources.

Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity
Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity

Author: Thomas Karl Alberts

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-03

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 131705590X

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Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity considers indigenous peoples’ struggles for human rights, anxieties about anthropocentric mastery of nature, neoliberal statecraft, and entrepreneurialism of the self. The book focuses on four domains - shamanism, indigenism, environmentalism and neoliberalism - in terms of interrelated historical processes and overlapping discourses. In doing so, it engages with shamanism’s manifold meanings in a world increasingly sensitive to indigenous peoples’ practices of territoriality, increasingly concerned about humans’ integral relationship with natural environments, and increasingly encouraged and coerced to adjust self-conduct to comport with and augment government conduct.