Shamanism Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing.

Shamanism Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing.

Shamanism has always been of great interest to anthropologists. More recently it has been "discovered" by westerners, especially New Age followers. This book breaks new ground byexamining pristine shamanism in Greenland, among people contacted late by Western missionaries and settlers. On...

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Main Author: Jakobsen+, Merete Demant
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 1999.
Subjects:
New Age movement > Greenland.
Shamanism > Greenland.
RELIGION / Indigenous, Folk & Tribal
New Age movement
Shamanism
Greenland
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Table of Contents:
  • SHAMANISM
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. SHAMANISM: DEFINITION AND DESCRIPTION
  • Chapter 2. EARLY ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN EXPLORERS, MISSIONARIES AND SHAMANS
  • Chapter 3. THE GREENLANDIC ANGAKKOQ
  • Chapter 4. NEO-SHAMANISM AND THE NEW AGE
  • Chapter 5. THE REVIVAL OF SHAMANISM IN OTHER CULTURES
  • CONCLUSION
  • Afterword to the Revised Edition. The Way of the Teacher
  • Appendix. Advanced Courses in Shamanism
  • Bibliography
  • Subject Index
  • Name Index

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