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Shamanism : a reader / edited by Graham Harvey.

Contributor(s): Harvey, Graham
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003Description: xv, 461 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415253306 (pbk.); 0415253292Subject(s): ShamanismDDC classification: 291.1/44 LOC classification: GN475.8 | .S44 2003Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
How Sereptie Djarvoskin of the Nganasans (Tavgi Samoyeds) became a shaman / Sereptie Djarvoskin, transcribed by Popov -- Discovering the way / Michael Harner -- Game and games, fortune and dualism in Siberian shamanism / Roberte N. Hamayon -- Possession and public morality: 11 other cosmological systems / Ioan M. Lewis -- Ojibway shamanism / John A. Grim -- The new anthropology of dreaming / Barbara Tedlock -- Submitting / Alan T. Campbell -- The reality of spirits / Edith Turner -- Like people in prehistory / Thomas A. Dowson -- The artistry and ritual aesthetics of urban Korean shamans / Chungmoo Choi -- Remembering to forget: the aesthetics of longing / Marina Roseman -- Ethnographic films on shamanism / Mihály Hoppál -- Urunge's way / Caroline Humphrey and Urgunge Onon -- Rethinking Induit shamanism through the concept of "Third gender" / Bernard Saladin d'Anglure -- Sacred genders in Siberia: shamans, bear festivals, and androgyny / Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer -- Toughness and tenderness in the wild man's lair: the everyday as impenetrable, the impenetrable as everyday / Michael Taussig -- From cosmology to environmentalism: shamanism as local knowledge in a global setting / Piers Vitebsky -- The poetry of shamanism / Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer -- Spiritual hucksterism: the rise of the plastic medicine men / Ward Churchill -- Shamanism from Ecuador to Chicago: a case study in new age ritual appropriation / Paul C. Johnson -- Tracking lost souls / Sandra Ingerman -- Dancing on the edge: shamanism in modern Britain / Gordon MacLellan -- The tree, the tower and the shaman: the material culture of resistance of the no M11 link roads protest of Wanstead and Leytonstone, London / Beverley Butler -- Waking ancestor spirits: neo-shamanic engagements with archaeology / Robert J. Wallis -- A brief history of psychedelics / Terence McKenna.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

How Sereptie Djarvoskin of the Nganasans (Tavgi Samoyeds) became a shaman / Sereptie Djarvoskin, transcribed by Popov -- Discovering the way / Michael Harner -- Game and games, fortune and dualism in Siberian shamanism / Roberte N. Hamayon -- Possession and public morality: 11 other cosmological systems / Ioan M. Lewis -- Ojibway shamanism / John A. Grim -- The new anthropology of dreaming / Barbara Tedlock -- Submitting / Alan T. Campbell -- The reality of spirits / Edith Turner -- Like people in prehistory / Thomas A. Dowson -- The artistry and ritual aesthetics of urban Korean shamans / Chungmoo Choi -- Remembering to forget: the aesthetics of longing / Marina Roseman -- Ethnographic films on shamanism / Mihály Hoppál -- Urunge's way / Caroline Humphrey and Urgunge Onon -- Rethinking Induit shamanism through the concept of "Third gender" / Bernard Saladin d'Anglure -- Sacred genders in Siberia: shamans, bear festivals, and androgyny / Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer -- Toughness and tenderness in the wild man's lair: the everyday as impenetrable, the impenetrable as everyday / Michael Taussig -- From cosmology to environmentalism: shamanism as local knowledge in a global setting / Piers Vitebsky -- The poetry of shamanism / Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer -- Spiritual hucksterism: the rise of the plastic medicine men / Ward Churchill -- Shamanism from Ecuador to Chicago: a case study in new age ritual appropriation / Paul C. Johnson -- Tracking lost souls / Sandra Ingerman -- Dancing on the edge: shamanism in modern Britain / Gordon MacLellan -- The tree, the tower and the shaman: the material culture of resistance of the no M11 link roads protest of Wanstead and Leytonstone, London / Beverley Butler -- Waking ancestor spirits: neo-shamanic engagements with archaeology / Robert J. Wallis -- A brief history of psychedelics / Terence McKenna.

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