Shamanism: Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing by Jakobsen, Merete Demant
Shamanism: Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing by Jakobsen, Merete Demant

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,...
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Author: Merete Demant Jakobsen
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Shamanism: Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing by Jakobsen, Merete Demant

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

$111.47
Shamanism: Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing by Jakobsen, Merete Demant

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

$111.47
Author: Merete Demant Jakobsen
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

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 the basis of material only available in Danish, and presented herein English for the first time, the author questions Mircea Eliade's well-known definition of the shaman as the master of ecstasy and suggests that his role has to be seen as that of a master of spirits.

The ambivalent nature of the shaman and the spirit world in the tough Arctic environment is then contrasted with the more benign attitude to shamanism in the New Age movement. After presenting descriptions of their organizations and accounts by participants, the author critically analyses the role of neo-shamanic courses and concludes that it is doubtful to consider what isoffered as shamanism.



Author: Merete Demant Jakobsen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 12/10/2020
Pages: 290
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781789200492

About the Author

Born in Copenhagen, Merete Demant Jakobsen taught in Denmark, Britain, and Alaska. Having worked on shamanism in ethnography and literature for her Danish degrees, she completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford in anthropology. She was researching negative spiritual experiences at the Religious Experience Research Centre, Westminster College, Oxford.


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