The Ethnopoetics of Shamanism by M. Santos, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Over the last century, Western portrayals of shamanism have changed radically toward an ethnopoetics of shamanism. While shamanic practices had long been indirectly registered by Westerners, it is only since the late nineteenth century that they have taken on symbolic import within discourses of primitivism and debates over magic and rationality. | The Ethnopoetics of Shamanism by M. Santos, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters