Sorcerers
and Shamans:
Carlos Castaneda
and Don Juan
Course
Description
This
course examines the controversial writings of
Carlos Castaneda, whose
doctoral dissertation concerning his apprenticeship
to Don Juan, a Yaqui
sorcerer, became a best-seller in the 1970s. Many
readers were inspired to
take up the path of the shaman by this book and its
sequels. Castaneda
and his mentor, Don Juan, still have a considerable
cult following, despite
controversy over Castaneda´s Ph.D. in
anthropology, and allegations of hoaxing.
We will read both Castaneda and the work of the
psychologist Richard DeMille
and others, who simultaneously debunk and
revalidate Castaneda´s writings.
What makes a work authentic? What is the difference
between a work of
scholarship, a work of fiction, and a religious
revelation? We will also read and
discuss general work on sorcerers and shamans, in
scholarship and popular
culture, and ethnomethodology. No
prerequisites.
Jesus
or Piltdown Man?
[Don
Juan is] "the most important paradigm since
Jesus" -- Joseph Chilton Pearce
"Don
Juan may be the biggest hoax in anthropology since
the Piltdown man" -- Marcello Truzzi
Previously
Offered:
NA
Next
Offered:
Summer
2004
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Summer
2004
ReSt
120 (Q) [U66]
Sorcerers
and Shamans: Carlos Castaneda and Don
Juan
-MTWT--- 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM [Eads
216]
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Castaneda, Carlos. 1998. Berkeley: University of
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Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don
Juan
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