Shamanic Ritual As Poetic Model: The Case Of María Sabina and Anne Waldman
This essay is written from the perspective of someone trained in religion and literature studies who is interested in the status of myth and ritual in the modern/postmodern world. More particularly, it seeks to raise questions as to whether a traditional mythic ritual is secularized beyond retrievin...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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[1987]
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Journal of ritual studies
Year: 1987, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 57-71 |
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Oral poetry
B Shamans B Ceremonies B Deities B Mushrooms B Religious rituals B RITUAL SPEECH B Chants |
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| Summary: | This essay is written from the perspective of someone trained in religion and literature studies who is interested in the status of myth and ritual in the modern/postmodern world. More particularly, it seeks to raise questions as to whether a traditional mythic ritual is secularized beyond retrieving or, alternatively, given new life when "re-cycled" in the chant-poem of an urban educated American poet (thus instancing a "remythologizing of poetry" through ritual). The case examined is the use in Anne Waldman's 1975 "Fast Speaking Woman" of a mushroom-induced curing ritual, a vigil or velada involving prolonged chanting, performed in 1956 by María Sabina, a nonliterate Mazatec Indian shaman from Oaxaca, Mexico. |
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| ISSN: | 0890-1112 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of ritual studies
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