Belknap Press / Harvard University Press, 2013. — 648 p. The Falling Sky is a remarkable first-person account of the life story and cosmo-ecological thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami of the Brazilian Amazon. Representing a people whose very existence is in jeopardy, Davi Kopenawa paints an unforgettable picture of Yanomami culture, past and...
Routledge, 2015. — 300 p. — (Vitality of Indigenous Religions Series). "Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity" considers indigenous peoples’ struggles for human rights, anxieties about anthropocentric mastery of nature, neoliberal statecraft, and entrepreneurialism of the self. The book focuses on four domains - shamanism, indigenism, environmentalism and neoliberalism - in terms of...
Boston: Beacon Press, 1992. — 268 p. This extraordinary collection of goddess stories from Native American civilizations across the continent, Paula Gunn Allen shares myths that have guided female shamans toward an understanding of the sacred for centuries.
University of Texas Press, 2007. — 335 p. Drawing on anthropologist Ana Mariella Bacigalupo's fifteen years of field research, Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche is the first study to follow shamans' gender identities and performance in a variety of ritual, social, sexual, and political contexts. To Mapuche shamans, or machi, the foye...
University of Texas Press, 2016. — 304 p. As a "wild," drumming thunder shaman, a warrior mounted on her spirit horse, Francisca Kolipi's spirit traveled to other historical times and places, gaining the power and knowledge to conduct spiritual warfare against her community's enemies, including forestry companies and settlers. As a "civilized" shaman, Francisca narrated the...
Routledge, 1997. — 216 p. The ancient heartland of shamanism is no longer forbidden territory - to travelers or to the spirits. But the spirits never left the vastnesses of Siberia and Central Asia, as these writings reveal. Russian and native experts, and an American cultural anthropologist who has done fieldwork in the region, introduce us to shamans as the poets, therapists,...
Ankara: Gazi Üniversitesi, 2008. — 173 s. Bapaeva Zhanyl M. Spells of Tuvan shamans: research, texts, translations (into Turkish) My thesis "Tuva Kamlarının Alkışları" aims to provide detailed information about the shamans (kams) who have held a special status in Tuvan society since time immemorial. The research section of the thesis seeks answers to questions such as "Who is...
University of New Mexico Press, 2010. — 544 p. In the Upper Amazon, mestizos are the Spanish-speaking descendants of Hispanic colonizers and the indigenous peoples of the jungle. Some mestizos have migrated to Amazon towns and cities, such as Iquitos and Pucallpa; most remain in small villages. They have retained features of a folk Catholicism and traditional Hispanic medicine,...
Palgrave Pivot, 2019. — 174 p. This book explores the contemporary practice of Neo-shamanism and its relationship to mental health. Chapters cover the practice of Neo-shamanism, how it differs from traditional shamanism, the technology of the shamanic journey, the lifeworlds of some of its practitioners, as well as its benefits and pitfalls. The author’s analysis draws on an...
Palgrave Pivot, 2019. — 174 p. This book explores the contemporary practice of Neo-shamanism and its relationship to mental health. Chapters cover the practice of Neo-shamanism, how it differs from traditional shamanism, the technology of the shamanic journey, the lifeworlds of some of its practitioners, as well as its benefits and pitfalls. The author’s analysis draws on an...
Philadelphia: Maccalla & Company, Printers, 1894. — 65 p. The words Nagual, Nagualism, Nagualist The Earliest Reference to Nagualism The Naualli of the Aztecs The Sacred Intoxicants The Personal Guardian Spirit Folk-lore of the Mixe Indians Fundamental Principles of Nagualism Exalted Position of Woman in Nagualism The Cave-temples and the Cave-gods The Sacred Numbers, 3 and 7...
Fürstenberg/Havel : Verlag Der Kulturstiftung Sibirien, SEC Publications, 2013. — 261 p. Series: Studies in social and cultural anthropology. Research into shamanic culture's mysteries Rivalry in shamanic healing Shamanising by arts Political and legal labours ruled by shamanic spirits Epilogue Appendix to "Shaman on the stage" Nanai words and shamanic terms Shamans and informants
Routledge, 2003. — 208 p. Shamans throughout much of Asia are regarded as having the power to control and coerce spirits. Many Asians today still turn to shamans to communicate with the world of the dead, heal the sick, and explain enigmatic events. To understand Asian religions, therefore, a knowledge of shamanism is essential. "Shamans in Asia" provides an introduction to the...
Boulder, CO : Sounds True, 2008. — 286 p. — ISBN: 1591799570 (ISBN13: 9781591799573) What does the world look like through the eyes of a shaman? To help answer this question, Dr. Bradford Keeney and Nancy Connor present Shamans of the World, an intimate encounter with traditional healers from ten unique indigenous cultures. Through mesmerizing first-hand accounts of miraculous...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 272 p. Over the last century, Western portrayals of shamanism have changed radically toward an ethnopoetics of shamanism. While shamanic practices had long been indirectly registered by Westerners, it is only since the late nineteenth century that they have taken on symbolic import within discourses of primitivism and debates over magic and...
Loompanics Unlimited, 1994. — 155 p. (Full Edition, Scanned by ReBorn. June 2006) Psychedelic Shamanism presents the spiritual and shamanic properties of psychotropic plants and discusses how they can be used to understand the structure of human consciousness. Author Jim DeKorne offers authoritative information about the cultivation, processing, and correct dosages for various...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. — xi, 317 p. Shamans are an integral part of communal religious traditions, professionals who make use of personal supernatural experiences, especially trance, as a resource for the wider community's physical and spiritual well-being. This Introduction surveys research on the topic of shamanism around the world, detailing the...
Bucureşti: Humanitas, 1997. — 473 p. — ISBN: 973-28-0715-6. Şamanismul este un fenomen mistico -religios carac-teristic Siberiei şi Asiei Centrale, dar întîlnit deopotrivă în restul Asiei, în Oceania, cele douâ Americi şi în rîndul vechilor populaţii indo-europene. în vaste zone ale lumii, şamanul este figura centrală a unui univers spiritual straniu, dar cu atît mai fascinant...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 368 p. Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia is an ethnographic study of the Parakana, a little-known indigenous people of Amazonia, who inhabit the interfluvial region in the state of Para, Brazil. This book analyzes the relationship between warfare and shamanism in Parakana society from the late 19th century until the end of the 20th...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 248 p. One of the fastest growing religious movements in the Western world, neo-shamanism embraces notions and techniques borrowed from various tribal peoples and adapted to the life of contemporary urban dwellers. Until the twenty-first century, the neo-shamanism found in northern Europe differed little from neo-shamanism elsewhere in the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 218 p. This book represents a germinal effort that urges all religious and world leaders to savor the mystical spirituality, especially the cosmology and spirituality of sacred sustainability of the indigenous peoples. The power of indigenous spirit world is harnessed for the common good of the indigenous communities and the regenerative power of...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. — 280 p. This long awaited book discusses both ancient and modern shamanism, demonstrating its longevity and spatial distribution. The book is divided into eleven thought-provoking chapters that are organised into three sections: mind-body, nature, and culture. It discusses the clear associations with this sometimes little-understood...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 296 p. Shamanism is commonly understood through reference to spirits and souls. However, these terms were introduced by Christian missionaries as part of the colonial effort of conversion. So, rather than trying to comprehend shamanism through medieval European concepts, this book examines it through ideas that started developing in the West after...
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. — xii, 242 p. The Search for the Spirits The Call of the Old People. Getting in Touch with the Spirits: The First Discoveries The Old Ones Remember A New Path Opens The Way of the Spirits The Postures and What They Have to Offer Going on a S pirit Journey The Many Faces of Divination The Gift of Healing Female Powers of Healing...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1983. — 231 p. "The Shaman: Patterns of Siberian and Ojibway Healing" opens with a comparative study of shamanism in the Siberian context. Four patterns are proposed that are then brought to a focused study of the healing practices of the Great Lakes peoples who have been called Ojibway, Ojibwa, Chippewa and who often self-designate now as...
Nanterre: Société d'ethnologie, 1990. — 880 p. Quel phénomène déroutant que le chamanisme ! Rehgieux certes, mais sans dogme ni clergé ni liturgie, et variant avec chaque chamane. Archaïque, mais en perpétuelle résurgence et adaptable autant que vulnérable aux influences. Une plongée dans la forêt sibérienne permet de mettre au jour son lien avec la chasse, en tant que mode de...
Oxford University Press, USA, 1973. — 216 p. — ISBN: 0195016491 (ISBN13: 9780195016499) Anthropologists have long been fascinated by the worldview and religious beliefs of indigenous peoples. Only recently, however, with the surge of interest in hallucinogenic agents in our own culture, have researchers begun to acknowledge the essential role of such substances in the cosmology...
Oxford University Press, 1973. — 224 p. Anthropologists have long been fascinated by the worldview and religious beliefs of indigenous peoples. Only recently, however, with the surge of interest in hallucinogenic agents in our own culture, have researchers begun to acknowledge the essential role of such substances in the cosmology of some shamanic societies. In this unusual...
Budapest: International Society for Shamanistic Research, 2013. — xvi, 130 p. From the Labyrinth of Studies Studies on Rock Art and/or Petroglyphs A Short Review of Growing Criticism Shamans, Symbols and Semantics Introduction on the Beginning of Shamanism Distinctive Features of Early Shamans (in Siberia) Semiotic Method in the Analysis of Rock “Art” More on Signs and Symbols...
Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 2007. — 188 p. — Bibliotheca Shamanistica (Book 13). Author Mihaly Hoppal, founder and president of the International Society of Shamanistic Research has written numerous studies examining shamanistic culture in many parts the world. His research has covered the comparative mythology of Uralic peoples, ethnosemiotics, theory of tradition, and...
Crossroad, 1992. — 216 p. In this pioneering work one of the world's leading experts on Native American traditions offers a detailed survey of Native American practices and beliefs regarding health, medicine, and religion. In contrast to the sharp Euro-American division between medicine and religion, Native American medical beliefs and practices can only be assessed, says the...
Inner Traditions, 2015. — 256 p. Each and every one of us has shamanic powers. Glimpses of them can arise at any age in the form of intuitive dreams, déjà vu, spontaneous visions, and out-of-body experiences. Most people dismiss these experiences. However, by embracing these gifts, we can unlock our shamanic potential to change ourselves and the world around us. Revealing his...
Stockholm University Press, 2016. — 122 p. The multifarious and sometimes contested concept of "shamanism" has aroused intense popular and scholarly interest since its initial coinage by the Russian scholar V. M. Mikhailovsky in the late 19th century. In this book, three leading scholars, representing different branches of the humanities, dwell on the current status of shamanic...
Berghahn Books, 1999. — 290 p. Shamanism has always been of great interest to anthropologists. More recently it has been "discovered" by westerners, especially New Age followers. This book breaks new ground byexamining pristine shamanism in Greenland, among people contacted late by Western missionaries and settlers. On the basis of material only available in Danish, and...
Berghahn Books, 1999. — 290 p. Shamanism has always been of great interest to anthropologists. More recently it has been "discovered" by westerners, especially New Age followers. This book breaks new ground byexamining pristine shamanism in Greenland, among people contacted late by Western missionaries and settlers. On the basis of material only available in Danish, and...
Inner Traditions / Bear & Company, 2019. — 224 p. Offering an insider’s experiential account of ancient Maya spiritual wisdom and practices, initiated Maya shaman-priestess Gabriela Jurosz-Landa opens up the mysterious world of the Maya, dispelling the rampant misinformation about their beliefs and traditions, sharing the transcendent beauty of their ceremonies, and explaining...
PIT Press, 2010, — 203 p. Psychedelic Information Theory: Shamanism in the Age of Reason is a formal analysis of the physical mechanisms underlying hallucination, shamanic ritual, and expanded states of consciousness. Written by James L. Kent, this text was researched for over 20 years and includes over 200 references and 31 images related to the latest science in the diverse...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 320 p. — (Oxford Ritual Studies). Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Clancy Cavnar offer an in-depth exploration of how Amerindian epistemology and ontology concerning indigenous shamanic rituals of the Amazon have spread to Western societies, and of how indigenous, mestizo, and cosmopolitan cultures have engaged with and transformed these forest...
University of California Press, 1993. — 386 p. Charged with restoring harmony and relieving pain, the Malay shaman places his patients in trance and encourages them to express their talents, drives, personality traits - the "Inner Winds" of Malay medical lore - in a kind of performance. These healing ceremonies, formerly viewed by Western anthropologists as exotic curiosities,...
University of New Mexico Press, 1992. — 320 p. Shamans and their practices have fascinated Western civilization since publication of the earliest ethnographies. Yet, alien to a positivistic worldview and characterized by hysteria, ecstasy, and magic, shamanism has continued to be classified as vestigial or archaic long after such labels have become meaningless. Lately, a fresh...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010. — 488 p. Using archival material and oral testimony collected during workshops in Nunavut between 1996 and 2008, Frederic Laugrand and Jarich Oosten provide a nuanced look at Inuit religion, offering a strong counter narrative to the idea that traditional Inuit culture declined post-contact. They show that setting up a dichotomy between a...
Los Angeles : Kosmon Press, 1948. — ix, 402 p. The Discovery That May Change The World Fire-Walking as an Introduction to Magic The Incredible Force used in Magic, Where it Comes from, and Some of its Uses The Two Souls of Man and the Proofs That There Are Two Instead of One The Kahuna System and the Three — Souls‖ or Spirits of Man, Each Using Its Own Voltage of Vital Force....
Precolumbia Mesoweb Press, 2012. — 152 p. (Revised second edition) Noted anthropologist Bruce Love's classic text on Maya shamanism is now revised and fully illustrated with color photographs by the author. A first-hand account based on years of fieldwork, it tells how Maya shamans in Yucatan manipulate and orchestrate the spirit world that surrounds them. Spirit beings can be...
2nd Edition — Synergetic Press, 2016. — 464 p. Join dozens of adventurers, anthropologists, artists, shamans, scientists and poets on a journey to remote regions of the Amazon and to the far reaches of the human psyche. The new, expanded edition of Ayahuasca Reader shares many distinct voices of the global ayahuasca movement: researchers conducting clinical studies on its...
Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1986. — 200 p. — (Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis - Stockholm studies in comparative religion). In the Amazonian provinces of Peru indigenous shamanistic practices are preserved among the mestizo population. Practitioners who call themselves vegetalistas (from which the term Vegetalismo may be formed) believe that certain plants, which they...
Singing Dragon, 2012. — 320 p. Increasing numbers of professionals in the fields of psychology and therapy are seeking to incorporate elements of spirituality into their therapeutic oeuvre, addressing not only mental and emotional issues, but also the soul. This book discloses how indigenous traditions can be adapted to offer practitioners a highly effective repertoire of...
Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1997. — 113 p. — (Bibliotheca Shamanistica 4). The shamanism of the ancient Finno-Ugric and Siberian peoples was a systematic ensemble of beliefs and ritual practices mainly connected with their ethnic identity. However, through pre-historic contacts, both direct and indirect, it left traces going back to the distant past even in Western European...
New York: Tarcher/Penguin. - 2004. - 309 p. A survey of five centuries of writings on the world's great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries. This collection of essays traces Western civilization's struggle to interpret and understand the ancient knowledge of cultures that revere magic men and women-individuals...
Tarcher, 1998. — 257 p. Anthropologist Narby's very personal account of his encounters with Amazonian shamanism and his passionately researched syntheses of anthropological, biochemical, neurological and mythological scholarship fascinate but do not convince. His defense of the rights of indigenous peoples against usurpation by capitalist, technological countries is admirable;...
Sofia: Professor Marin Drinov Academic Publishing House, 2009. — 258 p. Series Title: Studia Thracica, 11. Shamanhood / Shamanism Classical Territories and Beliefs Rites and Concepts Untugun and the "Music" of Shamans Back Through Time Perke Sound and Ritual Along the Route of the Bulgars Tura/Teiri/Tangra: Dues in Actu On Veshterstvo / Witchcraft and Shamanhood: Differences...
Cornell University Press, 2011. — 272 p. The forms of contemporary society and politics are often understood to be diametrically opposed to any expression of the supernatural; what happens when those forms are themselves regarded as manifestations of spirits and other occult phenomena? In Not Quite Shamans , Morten Axel Pedersen explores how the Darhad people of Northern...
Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 2016. — 208 p. Reflecting sixteen years of intensive fieldwork, this book is a rich chronicle of the daily lives, belief systems, and healing rituals of four highly revered Tibetan shamans forced into exile by the Chinese invasion during the 1950s. Larry Peters lived and studied closely with the shamans in Nepal, learning their belief...
Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 2016. — 208 p. Reflecting sixteen years of intensive fieldwork, this book is a rich chronicle of the daily lives, belief systems, and healing rituals of four highly revered Tibetan shamans forced into exile by the Chinese invasion during the 1950s. Larry Peters lived and studied closely with the shamans in Nepal, learning their belief...
Watkins Publishing, 2019. — 212 p. Ayahuasca is a powerful tool for transformation, that more and more Westerners are flocking to drink in a quest for greater self-knowledge, healing and reconnection with the natural world. This formerly esoteric, little-known brew is now a growth industry. But why? Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew that has a long history of ritual use among...
Penguin Books, 1994. — 328 p. — ISBN: 014012991X; ISBN13: 9780140129915. In Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice, ethnobotanist Mark J. Plotkin Ph.D. recounts his travels and studies with some of the most powerful Amazonian shamans, who taught him the plant lore their tribes have spent thousands of years gleaning from the rain forest.For more than a decade, Dr. Plotkin has raced...
New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 2007. — 316 p. Shamanism can be defined as the practice of initiated shamans who are distinguished by their mastery of a range of altered states of consciousness. Shamanism arises from the actions the shaman takes in non-ordinary reality and the results of those actions in ordinary reality. It is not a religion, yet it demands spiritual...
New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 2007. — 368 p. Shamanism can be defined as the practice of initiated shamans who are distinguished by their mastery of a range of altered states of consciousness. Shamanism arises from the actions the shaman takes in non-ordinary reality and the results of those actions in ordinary reality. It is not a religion, yet it demands spiritual...
London; New York: Routledge, 2001. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0415252555 (ISBN13: 9780415252553) An archaeology of altered states: Shamanism and material culture studies Neil S. Price Southern African shamanistic rock art in its social and cognitive contexts J.D. Lewis-Williams Rock art and the material culture of Siberian and Central Asian shamanism Ekaterina Devlet Shamans, heroes and...
Routledge, 2013. — 192 p. — (Vitality of Indigenous Religions Series). Proposing a new theoretical framework, this book explores Shamanism’s links with violence from a global perspective. Contributors, renowned anthropologists and authorities in the field, draw on their research in Mongolia, China, Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, India, Siberia, America, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan to...
Routledge, 2013. — 192 p. — (Vitality of Indigenous Religions Series). Proposing a new theoretical framework, this book explores Shamanism’s links with violence from a global perspective. Contributors, renowned anthropologists and authorities in the field, draw on their research in Mongolia, China, Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, India, Siberia, America, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan to...
State University of New York Press, 1993. — 310 p. M. Ripinsky-Naxon explores the core and essence of shamanism by looking at its ritual, mythology, symbolism, and the dynamics of its cultural process. In dealing with the basic elements of shamanism, the author discusses the shamanistic experience and enlightenment, the inner personal crisis, and the many aspects entailed in...
Inner Traditions, 1999. — 320 p. An exploration of shamanism and the archetypal symbolism that sits at the foundation of all human life. Not just an academic work. Helps the reader experience the actual mindset of the shaman. Presents a cohesive view of the recurrent patterns of symbolism and visionary experience that underlie all religion. The human psyche contains archetypal...
Alpha Books/Penguin Group, 2002. — 336 p. You're no idiot, of course. You know that shamans are also known as medicine men and women, who use the power of the mind and call on spiritual helpers to heal the afflicted. However, this ancient art has been put to more modern uses, including problem solving, empowerment, and personal mastery. But you don't have to trek through steamy...
University Press of Colorado, 1994. - 324 p. This unique collection of essays on shamanism in Central Asia and the Indian Americas provides sound and engaging scholarship that reflects the great diversity in this fascinating field. First published in 1994, Ancient Traditions has become a vital, frequently cited reference in the ongoing study of ancient religions. Over the...
London: Routledge, 2002. — 148 p. — ISBN: 0415273188; ISBN13: 9780415273183. Male and Female Shamans Trance, Ecstasy and Possession Shamans’ Paraphernalia Deities and Spirits The Shaman’s Costume Divination and Healing Soul, Ancestor Cults and Death Images and Idols Were-Animals
State University of New York Press, 2008. — 166 p. — ISBN: 079147464X; ISBN13: 9780791474648. Shamanisms and Dreams Dream in the Ancient Indian Matrix Indian Buddhist Views of Dream Dream in the Tibetan Context Tibetan Dream Theory, Imagery, and Interpretation
Inner Traditions, 2015. — 208 p. An intimate account of an ancient shamanic ritual of Siberia • Illustrated with vivid, full-color photographs throughout • Details the many preparations and ritual objects as well as the struggles of the shamans to complete the ceremony successfully Near the radiant blue waters of Lake Baikal, in the lands where Mongolia, Siberia, and China...
University of California Press, 2013. — 288 p. "Wayward Shamans" tells the story of an idea that humanity’s first expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, the work follows the trajectory of European knowledge...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2011. — 336 p. Jon Turk has kayaked around Cape Horn, traversed the Northwest Passage and paddled across the Pacific Rim. But, the strangest trip he ever took was the journey he made as a man of science into the realm of the spiritual. In 2000, in the remote Siberian village of Vyvenka, Jon Turk met an elderly woman named Moolynaut, a Koryak shaman, and...
University of Saskatchewan, November 2003. — 213 p. Vinogradov Andrey. Ak Jang in the context of the Altai religious tradition (In English) A young nation with ancient history. Beginning and the formative years (1904-1920s) of Ak Jang. Ak Jang and its interpretations: a critical review of the sources. The background and sources of Ak Jang: The religion of Turks and Mongols and...
Little Brown and Company, 2000. — 184 p. A richly illustrated guide to the world of shamanism, this book looks at both its historic and its present-day manifestations, from the snowscapes of Siberia to the jungles of the Amazon. - Includes more than 250 illustrations, mostly in full-color, presenting a unique pictorial record of shamanism - Describes key themes such as healing,...
Snu Voogelbreinder, 2009. — 509 p. Garden of Eden explores the vast world of psychoactive plants, animals and other organisms, and their uses in shamanism, spiritual exploration and healing. Encompassing scientific research, personal experience, ancient knowledge and esoteric philosophies, a multidisciplinary approach is taken, giving a wide view of the effects of natural...
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1956. — 65 p. Whaley Arthur. Nine Songs, A Study of the Shamanism of Ancient China (In English) The Great Unique. The Lord Amid the Clouds. The Princess of the Hsiang. The Lady of the Hsiang. The Big Lord of Lives. The Little Lord of Lives. The Lord of the East. The River God. The Mountain Spirit.
Routledge, 2003. — 320 p. In popular culture, such diverse characters as occultist Aleister Crowley, Doors musician Jim Morrison, and performance artist Joseph Beuys have been called shamans. In anthropology, on the other hand, shamanism has associations with sorcery, witchcraft and healing, and archaeologists have suggested the meaning of prehistoric cave art lies with shamans...
Llewellyn Publications, 2007. — 336 p. Fascinating, comprehensive, and eminently readable, this guide explores shamanism — the world's most enduring healing and religious tradition — in the light of modern medicine, psychology, neuroscience, consciousness disciplines, and religious studies. Roger Walsh , MD, Ph.D. (California) is a professor of psychiatry, philosophy, and...
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 2004. — xxxi, 1055 p. A comprehensive guide to world shamanism, emphasizing historical and up-to-date cultural adaptations. In 230 detailed essays, leading ethnographers and historians explain the general principles of shamanism as well as the details of varied practices. General Themes in World Shamanism North America Central and South America...
Duke University Press, 2002. — 320 p. On the little-known and darker side of shamanism there exists an ancient form of sorcery called kanaimà , a practice still observed among the Amerindians of the highlands of Guyana, Venezuela, and Brazil that involves the ritual stalking, mutilation, lingering death, and consumption of human victims. At once a memoir of cultural encounter...
Duke University Press, 2004. — 256 p. In Darkness and Secrecy brings together ethnographic examinations of Amazonian assault sorcery, witchcraft, and injurious magic, or "dark shamanism". Anthropological reflections on South American shamanism have tended to emphasize shamans’ healing powers and positive influence. This collection challenges that assumption by showing that dark...
Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2010. — 309 p. This important book examines the nature of shamanism, humanity's oldest and universal expression of religiosity, from fascinating fresh perspectives. It shows consciousness to derive from a blending of bodily, neurological, social and environmental interactions, and the altered mind states of shamanism, specifically, to be adaptations of...
University of Nebraska Press, 2013. — 408 p. — (With a foreword by Michael J. Harner). Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon tells the life story of Mandu da Silva, the last living jaguar shaman among the Baniwa people in the northwest Amazon. In this original and engaging work, Robin M. Wright, who has known and worked with da Silva for more than thirty...
Praeger, 1999. — 320 p. The interaction of 19th-century Russian missionaries with three indigenous groups, the Chukchi and Altaians in Siberia and the Dena'ina Indians in Alaska, resulted in widely different outcomes. The Chukchi disregarded the missionary message, the Dena'ina embraced Christianity, and the Altaians responded by selectively borrowing from Orthodox religion....
Springer, 2003. — 371 p. This book takes you to the "classical academy of shamanism", Siberian tribal spirituality that gave birth to the expression "shamanism." For the first time, in this volume Znamenski has rendered in readable English more than one hundred books and articles that describe all aspects of Siberian shamanism: ideology, ritual, mythology, spiritual pantheon,...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 434 p. — ISBN: 0195172310; ISBN13: 9780195172317. For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. So far no one has tried to understand why and how Western intellectual and popular culture became so fascinated with the topic. Behind fictional and non-fictional works on shamanism, this...
Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, 1986. — 235 p. Inan Abdulkadir. Historical and modern shamanism, materials and research (in Turkish) İçindekiler: Tarihte şamanizm. Dünyanın ve insanların yaradılışına dair efsaneler. Tufan efsanesi. Dünyanın sonu-kıyamet (kalgançı çak). Tanrılar ve ruhlar. Şamanizmde put-fetişler. Yer-su tanrıları. Ateş ve ocak. Şaman-kam ve hayatı. Şaman...
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