Shamanism has been practised amongst communities all over the world for millennia, and continues to survive today in both modern and ancient forms. Shamanism: A Reader unites perspectives from disciplines including anthropology, psychology, musicology, and botany to provide an unique overview of modern writing on shamanism. Juxtaposing the traditional practices of indigenous peoples with their new and often radically urban reinterpretations, experts including Michael Harner, Milhaly Hoppal, Majorie M Balzer and Piers Vitebsky raise questions about constructions of shamanism, its efficacy, its use and misuse as a cultural symbol, and its real nature. Locating its material in the encounter between traditional and contemporary, and within many forms of response to the image of the shaman, Shamanism: A Reader is an essential tribute to the vitality and breadth of shamanic tradition both among its original practitioners of Europe, tribes of America and Asia, and within seemingly familiar aspects of the modern west. Representing the best of classic and current scholarship, and highlighting the diversity of approaches to shamanism in an accessible and user-friendly way, this clearly introduced and organized collection sets a new standard for shamanic study in terms of the breadth and depth of its coverage. (Verlagstext)
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Graham Harvey:
General introduction | 1
Part One: Initiation | 25
Introduction to Part One | 27
Sereptie Djarvoskin, transcribed by Popov:
How Sereptie Djarvoskin of the Nganasans (Tavgi Samoyeds) became a shaman | 41
Michael Harner:
Discovering the way | 41
Part Two: Shamanising | 57
Introduction to Part Two | 59
Roberte NHamayon:
Game and games, fortune and dualism in Siberian shamanism | 63
Ioan MLewis:
Possession and public morality: II other cosmological systems | 69
John AGrim:
Ojibway shamanism | 92
Barbara Tedlock:
The new anthropology of dreaming | 103
Alan TCampbell:
Submitting | 123
Edith Turner:
The reality of spirits | 145
Part Three: Aesthetics | 153
Introduction to Part Three | 155
Thomas ADowson:
Like people in prehistory | 159
Chungmoo Choi:
The artistry and ritual aesthetics of urban Korean shamans | 170
Marina Roseman:
Remembering to forget: the aesthetics of longing | 186
Mihály Hoppál:
Ethnographic film on shamanism | 203
Part Four: Context | 221
Introduction to Part Four | 223
Caroline Humphrey and Urgunge Onon:
Urgunge's way | 226
Bernard Saladin d'Anglure:
Rethinking Inuit shamanism through the concept of "third gender" | 235
Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer:
Sacred genders in Siberia: shamans, bear festivals, and androgyny | 242
Michael Taussig:
Toughness and tenderness in the wild man's lair: the everyday as impenetrable, the impenetrable as everyday | 262
Piers Vitebsky:
From cosmology to environmentalism: shamanism as local knowledge in a global setting | 276
Part Five: New Developments | 299
Introduction to Part Five | 301
Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer:
The poetry of shamanism | 307
Ward Churchill:
Spiritual hucksterism: the rise of the plastic medicine men | 324
Paul CJohnson:
Shamanism from Ecuador to Chicago: a case study in new age ritual appropriation | 334
Sandra Ingerman:
Tracking lost souls | 355
Gordon MacLellan:
Dancing on the edge: shamanism in modern Britain | 365
Beverly Butler:
The tree, the tower and the shaman: the material culture of resistance of the noM11 link roads to protest of Wanstead and Leytonstone, London |375
Robert JWallis:
Waking ancestor spirits: neo-shamanic engagements with archaeology | 402
Terence McKenna:
A brief history of psychedelics | 424
Further study | 442
Index | 449