The Ethnopoetics of Shamanism

Santos, M.

Over the last century, Western portrayals of shamanism have changed radically toward an ethnopoetics of shamanism. While shamanic practices had long been indirectly registered by Westerners, it is only since the late nineteenth century that they have taken on symbolic import within discourses of primitivism and debates over magic and rationality.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2014-08-13

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137443687

DOI: 10.1057/9781137436405

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 265