04777oam 2200757I 450 991078384780332120230617041428.01-134-41612-11-134-41611-30-203-41960-X0-203-41757-71-280-07137-010.4324/9780203417577 (CKB)1000000000253688(EBL)178221(OCoLC)437080264(SSID)ssj0000377966(PQKBManifestationID)11282099(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000377966(PQKBWorkID)10351384(PQKB)10994026(SSID)ssj0000309393(PQKBManifestationID)11260235(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000309393(PQKBWorkID)10267638(PQKB)11676576(MiAaPQ)EBC178221(Au-PeEL)EBL178221(CaPaEBR)ebr10099750(CaONFJC)MIL7137(OCoLC)53886792(EXLCZ)99100000000025368820180706d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrShamans/neo-shamans ecstasy, alternative archaeologies and contemporary pagans /Robert J. WallisLondon ;New York :Routledge,2003.1 online resource (322 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-30203-X 0-415-30202-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-293) and index.Front Cover; Shamans/Neo-Shamans; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface - autoarchaeology: what have neo-Shamanisms got to do with me?; Acknowledgements; Introduction: a native at home - producing ethnographic fragments of neo-Shamanisms; Towards an 'autoarchaeology'; Challenging the insider-outsider divide; 'Alternative' archaeologies and anthropologies; Queering theory; Autoarchaeology and post-processualism; Post-colonial/neo-colonial concerns; Autoarchaeological 'ethnographic fragments'; Multi-sited ethnography and neo-Shamanist pluralities1. 'White shamans': sources for neo-ShamanismsMircea Eliade: 'forefather' of neo-Shamanisms; Carlos Castaneda: literal or literary shaman?; Michael Harner: disseminating 'core-shamanism'; 2. Plastic medicine men? Appraising the 'Great Pretenders'; Decontextualising and universalising; Individualising and psychologising; Cultural primitivism and archaism; Romanticism; A 'Humpty Dumpty word': seeing to 'extra pay'; 3. Taliesin's trip, Wyrd Woden: Druid and Heathen neo-Shamans; Celtic shamanism and Druidic shamans; Ethnographic fragments: Philip 'Greywolf' Shallcrass, a Druid shamanHeathenry and seidr Ethnographic fragments: Hrafnar community (San Francisco) seidr and possession; Comments on the ethnographic fragments; 4. 'Celtic' and 'Northern' shamanisms? Contesting the past; Celtic shamanisms; Academic approaches to Celtic shamanisms; Neo-Shamanic interpretations of Celtic shamanisms; Northern shamanisms; Did Celtic and Northern shamanisms exist?; 5. 'Sacred' sites? Neo-Shamans and prehistoric heritage; Problematising the 'sacred'; Neo-Shamanic engagements with 'sacred' sites; Neo-Shamanic interpretations of 'sacred' sites'The temple of the nation' aka 'that site': Stonehenge 6. Waking Neolithic ancestors: further controversies and 'reburial; 'Desecration' at Avebury; Hands-on resolutions; Unpacking the preservation ethic; Contests to the preservation ethic; Buster and bulldozers: 'Seahenge'; A British reburial issue?; 7. Invading Anthros, thieving Archos, Wannabe Indians: academics, neo-Shamans and indigenous communities; An 'Anthros' dilemma; The 'Wannabes'; Neo-Shamans and the capitalist ethic; Native Americans, 'Anthros' and 'Archos'; Ancient Pueblos and neo-Shamans; Neo-shamanic neo-colonialism?8. Conclusion: neo-Shamanisms in post-modernityAppendix: Resolution of the 5th Annual meeting of the Tradition Elders Circle and AIM resolution; Notes; Bibliography; IndexRobert J. Wallis explores the interface between the 'new' and prehistoric shamans of popular culture and anthropology, drawing on interviews with a variety of practitioners, particularly contemporary pagans in Britain and orth America.ShamanismNew Age movementShamanism.New Age movement.291.1/4473.57bcl11.98bclWallis Robert J.1124106MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783847803321Shamans3797665UNINA