Journeys into the Invisible: Shamanic Technologies of the Imagination - Softcover

Stpanoff, Charles

 
9781912808908: Journeys into the Invisible: Shamanic Technologies of the Imagination
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1912808900 ISBN 13: 9781912808908
Verlag: HAU Books, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Charles Stépanoff draws on ethnographic literature and his fieldwork in Siberia to reveal the immense contribution to the scope of human imagination made by shamans and the cognitive techniques they developed over the centuries.

Northern Shamans travel in mind in ways that appear mysterious to Westerners, but which rely on the human capacity of imagination. They perceive themselves simultaneously in two types of space—one visible, the other invisible—putting them in contact and establishing links with non-human beings in their surroundings. Shamans share their experience of mind travel with their patients, families, or the wider community, allowing them to participate in their odyssey through the invisible. Stépanoff offers an anthropological reflection on the relationships between our uses of the imagination, our relationships with the environment, and the emergence of social hierarchies.

This work will appeal to anthropologists as well as to anyone interested in learning about the power of imagination from the masters of the invisible, the shamans of the Far North.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charles Stépanoff is director of studies and professor in the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Social at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has done ethnographic research in Siberia and France on human relations with the nonhuman, including animals, spirits, and plants.

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Verlag
HAU Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1912808900
ISBN 13 
9781912808908
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Anzahl der Seiten
410
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