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Informationen zum Autor Jeremy Narby Klappentext A survey of five centuries of writings on the world's great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries. This collection of essays traces Western civilization's struggle to interpret and understand the ancient knowledge of cultures that revere magic men and women-individuals with the power to summon spirits. As written by priests, explorers, adventurers, natural historians, and anthropologists, the pieces express the wonder of strangers in new worlds. Who were these extraordinary magic-makers who imitated the sounds of animals in the night, or drank tobacco juice through funnels, or wore collars filled with stinging ants? Shamans Through Time is a rare chronicle of changing attitudes toward that which is strange and unfamiliar. With essays by such acclaimed thinkers as Claude Lévi-Strauss, Black Elk, Carlos Castaneda, and Frank Boas, it provides an awesome glimpse into the incredible shamanic practices of cultures around the world. Zusammenfassung A survey of five centuries of writings on the world's great shamans-the tricksters! sorcerers! conjurers! and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries. This collection of essays traces Western civilization's struggle to interpret and understand the ancient knowledge of cultures that revere magic men and women-individuals with the power to summon spirits. As written by priests! explorers! adventurers! natural historians! and anthropologists! the pieces express the wonder of strangers in new worlds. Who were these extraordinary magic-makers who imitated the sounds of animals in the night! or drank tobacco juice through funnels! or wore collars filled with stinging ants? Shamans Through Time is a rare chronicle of changing attitudes toward that which is strange and unfamiliar. With essays by such acclaimed thinkers as Claude Lévi-Strauss! Black Elk! Carlos Castaneda! and Frank Boas! it provides an awesome glimpse into the incredible shamanic practices of cultures around the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Note to Readers Introduction: Five Hundred Years of Shamans and Shamanism - Jeremy Narby and Francis Huxley Part One: The Christian View: "Ministers of the Devil" 1. "Devil Worship: Consuming Tobacco to Receive Messages from Nature" (1535) - Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo 2. "Ministers of the Devil Who Learn About the Secrets of Nature" (1557) - André Thévet 3. "Evoking the Devl: Fasting with Tobacco to Learn How to Cure" (1664) - Antoine Biet 4. The Shaman: "A Villain of a Magician Who Calls Demons" (1672) - Avvakum Petrovich Part Two: The Humanist View Becomes Rationalist: From "Esteemed Jugglers" to "Imposters" 5. "The Savages Esteem Their Jugglers" (1724) - Joseph François Lafitau 6. "Shamans Deserve Perpetual Labor for Their Hocus-Pocus" (1751) - Johann Georg Gmelin 7. "Blinded by Superstition" (1755) - Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov 8. "Shamans Are Imposters Who Claim They Consult the Devil—And Who Are Sometimes Close to the Mark" (1765) - Denis Diderot and colleagues 9. Misled Imposters and the Power of Imagination (1785) - Johann Gottfried Herder Part Three: Enter Anthropologists 10. Animism Is the Belief in Spiritual Beings (1871) - Edward B. Tylor 11. A White Man Goes to a Peaiman (1883) - Everard F. Im Tburn 12. The Angakoq Uses a Peculiar Language and Defines Taboos (1887) - Franz Boas 13. The-Man-Who-Fell-from-Heaven Shamanizes Despite Persecution (1896) - Wenceslas Sieroshevski 14. Shamanism Is a Dangerously Vague Word (1903) - Arnold Van Gennep 15. "Doomed to Inspiration" (1904) - Waldemar Bogoras 16. Ventriloquist and Trickster Performances for Healing and Divination (1908) - Vladimir Ilich Jochelson 17. "A Motley Class of Persons" (1908) - Roland B. Dixon 18. Seeking Contac...
