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Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century
Gloria Flaherty
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Description for Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 338 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; HBLL; HRLK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 628.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Condition
New
Weight
627 g
Number of Pages
338
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691632032
SKU
V9780691632032
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