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.
- ISBN10 1349684562
- ISBN13 9781349684564
- Publish Date 14 January 2014
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Imprint Palgrave MacMillan
- Edition 2014 ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 265
- Language English