Becoming Half Hidden: Shamanism and Initiation Among the Inuit

ISBN-13: 9780815307839 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 376 str.

Dan Merkur; Daniel Merkur;Merkur Daniel

Opis

Draws on psychoanalytic criteria to demonstrate that the traditional shamans among the Inuit of North America are expert in the religious uses of alternative psychic states, and that the sleight-of-hand, ventriloquism, and other tricks that have led other researchers to label them pathological perso

Spis treści

Chapter 1 A Study in Esoterica; Chapter 2 The Fiction of the Healed Healer; Chapter 3 The Ecstasies of Inuit Laity; Chapter 4 The Varieties of Ecstatic Seance; Chapter 5 The Pattern of Shamanic Initiations; Chapter 6 The Initiator’s Role; Chapter 7 The Vision Quest; Chapter 8 The Journey to the Moon and the Sun; Chapter 9 Helping Spirits and Shamanic Power; Chapter 10 The Seances of Commencement;

O autorze

Dan Merkur