Shamanism
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy - Mircea Eiade, Princeton University Press, 1964.
Shamanism is preeminently a religious phenomenon of Siberia and Central Asia. The magico-religious life of society centers on the shaman, at once magician and medicine man, healer and miracle-doer, psychopomp, priest, mystic and poet.
The Shaman - Piers Vitebsky, Little Brown &Co. , 1995.
Voyages of the soul, trance, ecstasy and healing from Siberia to the Amazon.
The Beauty of the Primitive - Andrei Znamenski, Oxford Press, 2007.
Shamanism and the Western imagination.
Aboriginal Men of High Degree - A.P. Elkin, Inner Traditions, 1977.
Initiation and sorcery in the world's oldest tradition.
Shaman - Joan Halifax, Thames and Hudson, 1982.
As healer, ceremonialist, spiritual guide and artist, the shaman has been a key figure in human society.
Ethnographic Sorcery - Harry G. West, University of Chicago Press, 2007.
The West argues that the world truly is made and remade by those who elaborate interpretative visions of it.
The Mind in the Cave - David Lewis-Williams, Thames and Hudson, 2002.
Focuses on the glorious but mysterious cave painting of western Europe.
Prehistories of the Future - Barkan & Bush, Stanford University Press, 1995.
The primitivist project and the culture of modernism show a cumulative and coherent subtlety in exploring the history of "othering" in the late colonialist period.
The Strong Eye of Shamanism - Robert Ryan, Inner Traditions, 1999.
A journey into the caves of consciousness, a direct look of power at the worlds most ancient form of spirituality.
The Teachings of Don Joan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge - Carlos Casteneda, University of California Press, 1969.
Castaneda compels us to beleive that Don Juan is one of thmost extraordinary figures in anthropological literature, a neolithis sage. It helps us to accept, from the continent we stole, q mysterious gift of wisdom.
The Andean Codex - J.E. Williams, Hampton Rhodes, 2005.
Adventures and initiations among the Peruvian shamans.
