The Ethnopoetics of Shamanism

By Marcel de Lima and M. Santos

Over the last century, Western portrayals of shamanism have changed radically toward an ethnopoetics of shamanism. While shamanic practices had long been indirectly registered by Westerners, it is only since the late nineteenth century that they have taken on symbolic import within discourses of primitivism and debates over magic and rationality.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137443685
• ISBN13: 9781137443687
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.6"