Jenny Blain

Nine Worlds of Seid-Magic

Ecstasy and Neo-Shamanism in North European Paganism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This accessible case study of Northern European shamanistic practice, or seidr, explores the way in which the ancient Norse belief systems have been rediscovered and reinvented by groups in Europe and North America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 258g
• ISBN-13: 9780415256513
• ISBN-10: 0415256518
• Artikelnr.: 21958470

Autorenporträt

Jenny Blain is a senior lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University where she leads the MA in Social Research Methods. Her research interests centre on issues of identity, gender, paganism and shamanism, social theory and experiential ethnography.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Shamanism, Ecstasy and Experiential Ethnography
2. The Saying of the Norns
3. The Greenland Seeress: Seidr as Shamanistic Practice
4. Approaching the Spirits
5. The Journey in the Mound
6. Re-evaluating the Witch-Queen
7. 'Ergi' Seid-men, Queer Transformations?
8. The Dance of the Ancestors
Notes
Bibliography