Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century / / Gloria Flaherty.
Pursuing special experiences that take them to the brink of permanent madness or death, men and women in every age have "returned" to heal and comfort their fellow human beings--and these shamans have fascinated students of society from Herodotus to Mircea Eliade. Gloria Flaherty's bo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1992 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (338 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART ONE. FROM FABLES TO FACTS: THE EUROPEAN RECEPTION OF SHAMANISM
- Chapter One. The Paradigm of Permissibility, or, Early Reporting Strategies
- Chapter Two. Eighteenth-Century Observations from the Field
- Chapter Three. Interaction, Transformation, and Extinction
- Chapter Four. Shamanism among the Medical Researchers
- PART TWO. BACK TO FICTIONS AND FANTASIES: THE IMPLICATIONS OF SHAMANISM FOR THE ARTS IN EUROPE
- Chapter Five. The Impact of Russia on Diderot and Le neveu de Ranteau
- Chapter Six. Herder on the Artist as the Shaman of Western Civilization
- Chapter Seven. Mozart, or, Orpheus Reborn
- Chapter Eight. Shamans Failed and Successful in Goethe
- Chapter Nine. Faust, the Modern Shaman
- Afterword Toward a Shamanology
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index