Shamans and Religion: An Anthropological Exploration in Critical ThinkingKehoe (anthropology, U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) seeks to inoculate her students against the mushy thinking she finds concerning shamans and shamanism. She traces the misinformation to a sensational mid-20th-century French tome by which expatriate Romanian Mircea Eliade hoped to acquire a reputation and a place in a European or American university. (He succeeded.) Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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Understanding Religion from | 21 |
The Idea of the Shaman | 37 |
Shamans Everywhere? | 57 |
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| Title | Shamans and Religion: An Anthropological Exploration in Critical Thinking |
| Author | Alice Beck Kehoe |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Waveland Press, 2000 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | Jun 7, 2008 |
| ISBN | 1577661621, 9781577661627 |
| Length | 125 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Ethnic & Tribal Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies |
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