Shamanism : : Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing / / Merete Demant Jakobsen.
Shamanism has always been of great interest to anthropologists. More recently it has been "discovered" by westerners, especially New Age followers. This book breaks new ground byexamining pristine shamanism in Greenland, among people contacted late by Western missionaries and settlers. On...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (290 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Shamanism: Definition and Description
- Chapter 2. Early Encounters Between Explorers, Missionaries and Shamans
- Chapter 3. The Greenlandic Angakkoq
- Chapter 4. Neo-shamanism and the New Age
- Chapter 5. The Revival of Shamanism in Other Cultures
- Conclusion
- Afterword: The Way of the Teacher
- Appendix. Advanced Courses in Shamanism
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Name Index