Shamans/neo-shamans : ecstasy, alternative archaeologies and contemporary pagans / / Robert J. Wallis

• Autore: Wallis Robert J.
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (322 p.)
• Disciplina: 291.1/44
• Soggetto topico: Shamanism; New Age movement
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Classificazione: 73.57; 11.98
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-293) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 pluralities ; 1. '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 shaman ; Heathenry 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Robert 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Shamans
• ISBN: 1-134-41612-1; 1-134-41611-3; 0-203-41960-X; 0-203-41757-7; 1-280-07137-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450712703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II