Going Native Or Going Naive?: White Shamanism and the Neo-noble SavageUniversity Press of America, 2003 - 103 Seiten Going Native or Going Naïve? is a critical analysis of an esoteric-Indian movement, called white shamanism. This movement, originating from the 1980's New Age boom, redefines the phenomenon of playing Indian. For white shamans and their followers, Indianness turns into a signifier for cultural cloning. By generating a neo-primitivistic bias, white shamanism utilizes esoteric reconceptualizations of ethnicity and identity. In Going Native or Going Naïve?, a retrospective view on psychohistorical and sociopolitical implications of Indianness and (ig)noble savage metaphors should clarify the prefix neo within postmodern adaptations of primitivism. The appropriation of an Indian simulacrum by white shamans as well as white shamanic disciplines connotes a subtle, yet hazardous form of ethnocentrism. Transcending mere market trends and profit margins, white shamanism epitomizes synthetic/cybernetic acculturations. Through investigating the white shamanic matrix, Going Native or Going Naïve? is intended to make these synthesizing processes more transparent. |
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... expressed in quite ambivalent pictures , overwhelmingly deriving from Christian thought . " Heaven and hell , garden versus wilderness , were the most common images deduced from this context . In the very early days of settlement , the ...
... expressed in quite ambivalent pictures , overwhelmingly deriving from Christian thought . " Heaven and hell , garden versus wilderness , were the most common images deduced from this context . In the very early days of settlement , the ...
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... expression . The body as object of art and desire occupied any facet in western society's life . Slogans like ' mens sana in corpore sano ' became increasingly postmodernized . Body art , expressed through piercing and tattooing , for ...
... expression . The body as object of art and desire occupied any facet in western society's life . Slogans like ' mens sana in corpore sano ' became increasingly postmodernized . Body art , expressed through piercing and tattooing , for ...
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... expressed in the nowadays notoriously famous Chief Seattle Speech . Surprisingly , this speech , although proven as fake Indian text originally composed by a Texan named Ted Perry - in a New York Times article in 1992 , is still treated ...
... expressed in the nowadays notoriously famous Chief Seattle Speech . Surprisingly , this speech , although proven as fake Indian text originally composed by a Texan named Ted Perry - in a New York Times article in 1992 , is still treated ...
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Going Native Or Going Naive?: White Shamanism and the Neo-noble Savage Dagmar Wernitznig Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2003 |
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