Mircea Eliade descibed shamanism as the primal religion of humanity, the 'archaic technique of ecstasy'. The books of best-selling author Carlos Castaneda made it part of ...

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. There is an enormous literature on shamanism, but no one has tried to ...

From the snowscapes of Siberia to the jungles of the Amazon, this book explores the role of the shaman as a healer mediating between the world of the living and the world of ...

Unravelling the history, ideologies and rites of shamanism, Margaret Stutley provides an authoritative guide to one of the world's most ancient, notorious and frequently ...