Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century

preview-18
  • Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century Book Detail

  • Author : Gloria Flaherty
  • Release Date : 2014-07-14
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 337
  • ISBN 13 : 1400862647
  • File Size : 94,94 MB

Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century by Gloria Flaherty PDF Summary

Book Description: Pursuing special experiences that take them to the brink of permanent madness or death, men and women in every age have "returned" to heal and comfort their fellow human beings--and these shamans have fascinated students of society from Herodotus to Mircea Eliade. Gloria Flaherty's book is about the first Western encounters with shamanic peoples and practices. Flaherty makes us see the eighteenth century as an age in which explorers were fascinating all Europe with tales of shamans who accomplished a "self-induced cure for a self-induced fit." Reports from what must have seemed a forbidden world of strange rites and moral licentiousness came from botanists, geographers, missionaries, and other travelers of the period, and these accounts created such a stir that they permeated caf talk, journal articles, and learned debates, giving rise to plays, encyclopedia articles, art, and operas about shamanism. The first part of the book describes in rich detail how information about shamanism entered the intellectual mainstream of the eighteenth century. In the second part Flaherty analyzes the artistic and critical implications of that process. In so doing, she offers remarkable chapters on Diderot, Herder, Goethe, and the cult of the genius of Mozart, as well as a chapter devoted to a new reading of Goethe's Faust that views Faust as the modern shaman. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century

Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century

File Size : 68,68 MB
Total View : 4277 Views
DOWNLOAD

Pursuing special experiences that take them to the brink of permanent madness or death, men and women in every age have "returned" to heal and comfort their fel

Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century

Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century

File Size : 20,20 MB
Total View : 5870 Views
DOWNLOAD

Pursuing special experiences that take them to the brink of permanent madness or death, men and women in every age have returned to heal and comfort their fello

The Beauty of the Primitive

The Beauty of the Primitive

File Size : 39,39 MB
Total View : 1784 Views
DOWNLOAD

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 o

Genealogies of Shamanism

Genealogies of Shamanism

File Size : 21,21 MB
Total View : 9752 Views
DOWNLOAD

Cover -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Approaching shamanism -- 2 Eighteenth and nineteenth-century interpretations -- 3 Early twentieth-century Am

Wayward Shamans

Wayward Shamans

File Size : 75,75 MB
Total View : 8743 Views
DOWNLOAD

Wayward Shamans tells the story of an idea that humanity’s first expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known a