The nature of shamanism : substance and function of a religious metaphor
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TextAlbany, NY State University of New York Press c1993Description: xi, 289p.; ill.; bibliog. notes; bibliog.; indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0791413861
- BL2370.S5 R52 1993
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1 Introduction: a personal dialectic. 2 Shamanism and culture: configurations of a religious metaphor. 3 Substance and function of shamanism. 4 The psychotropic universe: cosmology of the spirit world. 5 The ritual drug complex: ethnobiology of heaven and hell. 6 The botanic experience: hallucinogens in archaeology and ethnohistory. 7 The power of metaphors; phenomenology of symbolic forms
'...explores the core and essence of shamanism by looking at its ritual, mythology, symbolism, and the dynamics of its cultural process. In dealing with the basic elements of shamanism, the author discusses the shamanistic experience and enlightenment, the inner personal crisis, and the many aspects entailed in the role of the shaman.'
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