Robert J. Wallis

Shamans/Neo-Shamans (eBook, PDF)

Ecstasies, Alternative Archaeologies and Contemporary Pagans

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In popular culture, such diverse characters as occultist Aleister Crowley, Doors musician Jim Morrison, and performance artist Joseph Beuys have been called shamans. In anthropology, on the other hand, shamanism has associations with sorcery, witchcraft and healing, and archaeologists have suggested the meaning of prehistoric cave art lies with shamans and altered consciousness. Robert J. Wallis explores the interface between 'new' and prehistoric shamans. The book draws on interviews with a variety of practitioners, particularly contemporary pagans in Britain and north America. Wallis looks at historical and archaeological sources to explore contemporary pagan engagements with prehistoric sacred sites such as Stonehenge and Avebury, and discusses the controversial use by neo-Shamans of indigenous (particularly native American) shamanism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134416127
• Artikelnr.: 40464839

Autorenporträt

Robert J. Wallis

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction A Native at
Home: Producing Ethnographic Fragments of Neo-Shamanisms 1.
'White-Shamans': Sources for Neo-Shamans 2. Plastic Medicine Men?
Appraising the 'Great Pretenders' 3. Taliesin's Trip, Wyrd Woden: Druid and
Heathen Neo-Shamans 4. 'Celtic' and 'Northern' Shamanisms? Contesting the
Past 5. 'Sacred' Sites? Neo-Shamans and Prehistoric Heritage 6. Waking
Neolithic Ancestors: Further Controversies and 'Reburial' 7. Invading
Anthros, Thieving Archos, Wannabe Indians: Academics, Neo-Shamans and
Indigenous Communities Conclusion: Neo-Shamans in Post-modernity Appendix
Resolution of the 5th Annual Meeting of the Tradition Elders Circle & AIM
Resolution References Index