The Beauty of the Primitive: Shamanism and the Western Imagination
by Andrei A. Znamenski
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages434 pages
ISBN
9780195172317
Published
2007
Description
For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general Public and academics. There is an enormous literature on shamanism, but no one has tried to understand why and how western intellectual ...For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general Public and academics. There is an enormous literature on shamanism, but no one has tried to understand why and how western intellectual and popular culture became so fascinated with the topic.