2e de couv.: 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…
La quatrième de couverture porte la mention suivante : "The role of the religious specialist in Andean cultures of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries was a complicated one, balanced between local traditions and the culture of the Spanish. In The Power of Huacas…
4e de couv.: Wayward shamans tells the story of an idea: that humanity's first expressions of art, religion, and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. The book traces the shamanic category beginning with its emergence in ethnographic accounts i…
Bonne initiation à cet état de conscience et de pouvoir qui existe chez certains individus en certaines circonstances. Bien documenté et d'une lecture abordable, procure des informations solides sur ce système psychologique, médical et spirituel très riche d'enseignement. [SDM].