Flaherty Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6264-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 190, 338 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Flaherty, Gloria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction 3

Pt. 1 From Fables to Facts: The European Reception of Shamanism

Ch. 1 The Paradigm of Permissibility, or, Early Reporting Strategies 21

Ch. 2 Eighteenth-Century Observations from the Field 43

Ch. 3 Interaction, Transformation, and Extinction 67

Ch. 4 Shamanism among the Medical Researchers 97

Pt. 2 Back to Fictions and Fantasies: The Implications of Shamanism for the Arts in Europe

Ch. 5 The Impact of Russia on Diderot and Le neveu de Rameau 117

Ch. 6 Herder on the Artist as the Shaman of Western Civilization 132

Ch. 7 Mozart, or, Orpheus Reborn 150

Ch. 8 Shamans Failed and Successful in Goethe 166

Ch. 9 Faust, the Modern Shaman 183

Afterword: Toward a Shamanology 208

Notes 217

Bibliography 259

Index 293