The Ethnopoetics of Shamanism
Description
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.
Keywords
Social ScienceAnthropologyCultural & SocialSociology of ReligionSociology
2014Book
Author(s)Marcel de Lima Santos
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9781137443687
LanguageEnglish
