By Merete Demant Jakobsen
ISBN-10: 1571811958
ISBN-13: 9781571811950
ISBN-10: 1571819940
ISBN-13: 9781571819949
Shamanism has continuously been of significant curiosity to anthropologists. extra lately it's been "discovered" by way of westerners, in particular New Age fans. This publication breaks new flooring byexamining pristine shamanism in Greenland, between humans contacted overdue by way of Western missionaries and settlers. at the foundation of fabric in simple terms to be had in Danish, and provided herein English for the 1st time, the writer questions Mircea Eliade's famous definition of the shaman because the grasp of ecstasy and means that his function should be visible as that of a grasp of spirits.
The ambivalent nature of the shaman and the spirit international within the difficult Arctic atmosphere is then contrasted with the extra benign perspective to shamanism within the New Age stream. After offering descriptions in their organisations and bills by way of members, the writer seriously analyses the position of neo-shamanic classes and concludes that it really is uncertain to think about what isoffered as shamanism.
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Shamanism: Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing by Merete Demant Jakobsen
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