The gift/curse of "second sight": Is "blackness" a shamanic category in the myth of America?

History of Religions

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 19-56

  Perkinson, Jim ^a  

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EID: 63849151473     PISSN: 00182710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/463695     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903; reprint, Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1961), p. 16
2. Toni Cade Bambara, "Deep Sight and Rescue Missions," in Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation, ed. Gerald Early (New York: Penguin, 1993), pp. 163-74,310
3. Mircea Eliade, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, trans. Willard R. Trask (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1964), p. xiv
4. Joan Halifax, Shamanic Voices: A Survey of Visionary Narratives (New York: Arkana, 1991), p. 4
5. Joan Halifax, Shaman: The Wounded Healer (New York: Thames & Hudson, 1982), p. 10
6. Mark Levy, Technicians of Ecstasy: Shamanism and the Modern Artist (Norfolk, Conn.: Bramble, 1993), p. 43
7. Levy, p. 45
8. Andre Breton, Surrealism and Painting, trans. Simon Watson Taylor (New York: Harper & Row, 1972), p. 144
9. Hayden Herrera, Frida: A Biography ofFrida Kahlo (New York: Harper & Row, 1983), p. 266; Levy, p. 49
10. Herrera, p. 260; Levy, pp. 49-50
11. Herrera, p. 75; Levy, p. 45
12. Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972), p. 35; Levy, p. 46
13. Stephen Larsen, The Shaman's Doorway: Opening Imagination to Power and Myth (New York, Harper & Row, 1976; New York: Station Hill, 1988), p. 4 (page citations are to the reprint edition)
14. See Gloria Orenstein, "Toward an Ecofeminist Ethic of Shamanism and the Sacred," in Ecofeminism and the Sacred, ed. Carol J. Adams (New York: Continuum, 1993), pp. 172-90, esp. p. 174
15. Clifton H. Johnson, ed. God Struck Me Dead: Voices of Ex-slaves (Cleveland: Pilgrim, 1993), p. 59
16. Riggins R. Earl, Jr., Dark Symbols, Obscure Signs: God, Self and Community in the Slave Mind (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1993), p. 174
17. Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982), p. 5
18. See Charles Long, Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Interpretation of Religion (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986)
19. Rudolph Otto, The Idea of Holy, trans. John W. Harvey (London: Oxford University Press, 1950), p. 13
20. Long, p. 166
21. Long, p. 165
22. Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993), pp. 37, 77, 217
23. See Theophus Smith, "The Spirituality of African American Traditions," in Christian Spirituality: Post-Reformation and Modem, ed. Louis Dupre and Don E. Saliers (New York: Crossroad, 1989), pp. 372-414, esp. p. 384
24. Amanda Porterfield, "Shamanism: A Psychosocial Definition," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 55 (1987): 728-29
25. Smith, "The Spirituality of African American Traditions," p. 385
26. citing Kenneth Burke, The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action (New York: Vintage, 1957), p. 100. Burke, in turn, borrows from John Crowe Ransom
27. James M. Glass, "The Philosopher and the Shaman: The Political Vision as Incantation," Political Theory 2 (1974): 186
28. Morton Marks, "Uncovering Ritual Structures in Afro-American Music," in Religious Movements in Contemporary America, ed. Irving I. Zaretsky and Mark P. Leone (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1974), pp. 60-117, esp. pp. 63-64, 67
29. Theophus Smith, Conjuring Culture: Biblical Formations of Black America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), pp. 168-69, 213-16
30. Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, trans. C. L. Markmann (New York: Grove, 1967), p. 111
31. Fanon, p. 109
32. Ibid
33. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (New York: Modern Library, 1952)
34. Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (New York: Knopf, 1977)
35. and Richard Wright, Native Son (New York: Harper, 1940)
36. quoting A. K. Coomaraswamy, "Symplegades," in Studies and Essays in the History of Science and Learning Offered in Homage to George Sarton on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday, 31 August 1944, ed. Ashley M. F. Montague (New York: Schuman, 1946), pp. 463-88
37. Eliade, p. 485
38. David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (New York: Verso, 1991), p. 12
39. W. E. B. DuBois, Black Reconstruction in the United States, 1860-1880 (1935; reprint. New York, 1977), pp. 30, 700
40. Michael Taussig, Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987)