Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge - Couverture souple

Narby, Jeremy; Huxley, Francis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0500510709 ISBN 13 : 9780500510704

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

This is a 500-year survey of writings on the world's shamans - the healers, sorcerers, conjurers and tricksters. Jeremy Narby and Francis Huxley trace Western civilization's attempts to understand the ancient knowledge of shamans around the world and have collected observations about and interviews with shamans from more than 60 missionaries, botanists, anthropologists, ethnographers and psychologists spanning from 1535 to 2000. The contributors convey everything from fear, suspicion and condescension to respect, fascination and adulation. The essays are by such thinkers as Claude Levi-Strauss, Black Elk, Franz Boas and Carlos Castaneda.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jeremy Narby studied history at the University of Canterbury and received a doctorate in anthropology from Stanford University. He is the author of The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge. Francis Huxley took his degree in anthropology at the University of Oxford and has written widely on the subject.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0500510709
• ISBN 13: 9780500510704
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Éditeur: Narby Jeremy, Huxley Francis
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