Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century /
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 bo...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1992]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter One. The Paradigm of Permissibility, or, Early Reporting Strategies
- Chapter Two. Eighteenth-Century Observations from the Field
- Chapter Three. Interaction, Transformation, and Extinction
- Chapter Four. Shamanism among the Medical Researchers
- Chapter Five. The Impact of Russia on Diderot and Le neveu de Ranteau
- Chapter Six. Herder on the Artist as the Shaman of Western Civilization
- Chapter Seven. Mozart, or, Orpheus Reborn
- Chapter Eight. Shamans Failed and Successful in Goethe
- Chapter Nine. Faust, the Modern Shaman
- Afterword Toward a Shamanology
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.