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Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Fore by Mark J Plotkin Publisher Comments For thousands of years, healers have used plants to cure illness. Aspirin, the world's most widely used drug, is based on compounds originally extracted from the bark of a willow tree, and more than a quarter of medicines found on pharmacy shelves... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Efe Pygmies: Archers of the African Rain Forest by William F Wheeler Publisher Comments Efe Pygmies is a portrait of an endangered people and place. This volume presents a visual portrayal of the Efe pygmies of the Congo, the world's oldest pure-blooded ethnic group and one of its most remote. Through this book's photography and text, the... (read more) List Price $125.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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Living Tribes by Colin Prior Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-191).... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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Last of the Medicine Men by Benedict Allen Publisher Comments In The Last of the Medicine Men, author Benedict Allen, explores the mysterious and dramatic world of healers, who are popularly referred to as witchdoctors. In the diverse communities of the world, healing roles are assumed by faithhealers, shamans... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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From Lucy to Language by Donald Johanson Publisher Comments In 1974 in a remote region of Ethiopia, Donald Johanson, then one of America's most promising young paleoanthropologists, discovered "Lucy", the oldest, best preserved skeleton of any erect-walking human ever found. This discovery prompted a complete... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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Ancient Traditions: Shamanism in Central Asia and the Americas by Gary Seaman Publisher Comments Shamanism is the world's oldest religion. The rituals and beliefs of this ancient tradition were carried from Asia and Siberia into the New World by nomadic hunting bands beginning 12,000 years ago. This unique collection of essays on shamanism in... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Secrets of the Talking Jaguar by Martin Prechtel Publisher Comments In this text, Prechtel brings to life the sights, sounds, scents and colours of the village. In a tale filled with enchantment, danger, evocative cultural descriptions, shamanic rivalry and hope, Prechtel takes the reader into the heart of both untamed... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Native Healer by Robert G Lake Publisher Comments An exciting glimpse into the world of Native American shamanism. Many today claim to be healers and spiritual teachers, but Medicine Grizzlybear Lake definitely is both. In this work he explains how a person is called by higher powers to be a medicine... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Breaking Open the Head : a Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism (02 Edition) by Daniel Pinchbeck Publisher Comments A dazzling work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the promise and meaning of the psychedelic experience. While psychedelics of all sorts are demonized in America today, the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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The Quest for the Shaman by Mira Aldhouse Green Publisher Comments An informative and entertaining exploring of shamanism and ritual behavior in ancient Europe. The authors draw on the most recent archaeological research to show that shamanism was endemic among ancient European peoples from the Stone Age to the early... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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Bollingen Series #0076: Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade Publisher Comments Writing as a historian of religion, Eliade synthesizes the approaches of psychology, sociology, and ethnology to study the figure of the shaman, at once magician and medicine man, healer and miracle-doer, psychopomp, priest, mystic, and poet.... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Meeting the Medicine Men: An Englishman's Travels Among the Navajo by Charles Langley Synopsis A chance meeting with a young Navajo Indian propels an English traveler out of his middle-class life and into the world of North American Indian Medicine Men, a world where people genuinely believe that witchcraft can bring ruin, even death, and only... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Ayahuasca: The Visionary and Healing Powers of the Vine of the Soul by Joan Parisi Wilcox Publisher Comments Joan Parisi Wilcox has been initiated into the Qand#8217;ero shamanic tradition of the Andes and is the author of Keepers of the Ancient Knowledge: The Mystical World of the Qand#8217;ero Indians of Peru. She lives in North Carolina. Ayahuasca: The... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Peoples of the World: Their Cultues, Traditions, and Ways of Life by National Geographic Publisher Comments Introduction by David Maybury-Lewis Long viewed as an authority on exotic peoples, National Geographic has drawn together a dozen leading experts to explore for the first time the astounding array of cultures still surviving on Earth, even as many are... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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Shamanic Wisdomkeepers by Timothy Freke Synopsis Shamans have the power to heal, receive visions, and transcend their personal identities to become our representatives in the spirit world. Who are these remarkable people and what do they believe? Here are the answers, in the actual words of shamans... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Shamanism : Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy - With New Foreword (04 Edition) by Mircea Eliade Publisher Comments First published in 1951, Shamanism soon became the standard work in the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. Writing as the founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Romanian émigré--scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $17.00 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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The Way of the Shaman: Tenth Anniversary Edition by Michael Harner Publisher Comments This classic on shamanism pioneered the modern shamanic renaissance. It is the foremost resource and reference on shamanism. Now, with a new introduction and a guide to current resources, anthropologist Michael Harner provides the definitive handbook on... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Shamans Through Time : 500 Years on the Path To Knowledge (01 Edition) by Jeremy Narby Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Shamanism (Quest Book) by Shirley Nicholson Publisher Comments A powerful collection of essays from authors such as Mircea Eliade, Joan Halifax, Stanley Krippner, Brooke Medicine Eagle, Serge King, and Michael Harner on the mystifying phenomenon of shamanism around the world---what it is, how it works and why.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Shaman's Path: Healing, Personal Growth, & Empowerment by Gary Doore Publisher Comments The ancient path of shamanism is alive and well in contemporary society. Physicians, therapists, and spiritual seekers are among those who are rediscovering the shaman's methods—such as drumming, visualization, and storytelling—as effective... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |