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Shamans/neo-Shamans

contested ecstasies, alternative archaeologies, and contemporary pagans

by Robert J Wallis

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Fiction

Description

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In popular culture, such diverse characters as occultist Aleister Crowley, Doors musician Jim Morrison, and performance artist Joseph Beuys have been called shamans. In anthropology, on the other hand, shamanism has associations with sorcery, witchcraft and healing, and archaeologists have suggested the meaning of prehistoric cave art lies with shamans and altered consciousness. Robert J. Wallis explores the interface between 'new' and prehistoric shamans. The book draws on interviews with a variety of practitioners, particularly contemporary pagans in Britain and north America. Wallis looks at historical and archaeological sources to explore contemporary pagan engagements with prehistoric sacred sites such as Stonehenge and Avebury, and discusses the controversial use by neo-Shamans of indigenous (particularly native American) shamanism.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics, Rock art, geoglyphs, and ancient symbols, Shamanism and spirit practice, and Witchcraft and folk magic.

  • Witchcraft and folk magic

    Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the description.

    • “Witchcraft”· in description
  • Shamanism and spirit practice

    Controlled discovery queries from openalex and openlibrary matched “shamanism”, “Shamanism”, and “Shamans”. Retained metadata contains “Shamans” in the title, “Shamanism” in the description, “Shamans” in the description, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • “shamanism”· via OpenAlex
    • “Shamanism”· via Open Library
    • “Shamans”· via Open Library
    • “Shamans”· in title
    • “Shamanism”· in description
    • “Shamans”· in description
  • Rock art, geoglyphs, and ancient symbols

    Retained metadata contains “cave art” in the description.

    • “cave art”· in description
  • Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics

    Retained metadata contains “Consciousness” in the description.

    • “Consciousness”· in description

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Editions

Open Library reports 9 editions; 2 cataloged here.

OpenAlex scholarly book record

2003-12-08—English—Unknown

contested ecstasies, alternative archaeologies, and contemporary pagans

Open Library record

2003RoutledgeEnglish
  • 9780415302029
  • 9780415302036
  • 0415302021
  • 041530203X
No ebook

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Cataloging notes

  • Open Library reports 9 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL5961699W
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