Genealogies of shamanism : struggles for power, charisma and authority /

After Western-Europeans first heard the word 'shaman' in Siberia at the end of the seventeenth century, the term rapidly acquired a remarkable range of meanings in different contexts. This book traces the long genealogical journey of the notions of 'shaman' and 'shamanism�...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Boekhoven, Jeroen W., 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Groningen : Barkhuis, 2011.
Subjects:
Shamanism.
Chamanisme.
shamanism.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Gaia & Earth Energies.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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