The Beauty of the Primitive: Shamanism and the Western Imagination

by Andrei A. Znamenski

For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. There is an enormous literature on shamanism, but no one has tried to understand why and how Western intellectual and popular culture became so fascinated with the topic. Behind fictional and non-fictional works on shamanism, Andrei A. Znamenski uncovers an exciting story that mirrors changing Western attitudes toward the primitive. The Beauty...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195172310
• ISBN13: 9780195172317
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.3"