Written for therapists, scholars, clergy, students, and those with an interest in non-traditional healing practices, this book tells the story of Bradford Keeney, the first non-African to be inducted as a shaman in the Kung Bushman and Zulu cultures.
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…
"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, t…
This book 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 wor…
Ch. 1. Myth in its San incarnation -- ch. 2. Bringing home the honey -- ch. 3. The mantis makes an eland -- ch. 4. The fight with the meerkats -- ch. 5. A visit to the lion's house -- ch. 6. The mantis dreams -- ch. 7. Narrating and painting -- ch. 8. People of the eland -- ch. …