The Beauty of the Primitive: Shamanism and Western Imagination: Shamanism and the Western Imagination
A scholarly exploration of how Western imagination has interpreted and romanticized shamanism from the Enlightenment to today.
About This Book
This book examines the ways Western culture has perceived and represented shamanism from the eighteenth century onward.
It traces changing attitudes in academia, literature, and popular imagination toward indigenous spiritual practices.
The study highlights how shamanism became a mirror for Western ideas about the primitive, the exotic, and the spiritual.
Readers gain insight into the intellectual history that shaped modern understandings of shamanic traditions.
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