Shamans Through Time : 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge Paperback - 2004
by Jeremy Narby
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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.
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- Title Shamans Through Time : 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge
- Author Jeremy Narby
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
- Date 2004
- Bookseller's Inventory # G1585423629I3N00
- ISBN 9781585423620 / 1585423629
- Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.95 x 6.07 x 0.84 in (22.73 x 15.42 x 2.13 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Dewey Decimal Code 201.44
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Summary
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.
