Shamans Through Time 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge

Traces Western civilization's attempts over 500 years to understand the ancient knowledge of shamans. This collection of writings by priests, explorers, adventurers, natural historians, political dissidents, & anthropologists expresses the wonder of strangers in new worlds. A fascinating history of the birth of a remarkable new field of inquiry that asserted that the study of human beings could be a science -- & of the changing face of anthropologists in the 20th cent., with the controversial work of anthropologists who have crossed lines separating observer from participant. Essays by: Claude Levi-Strauss, Black Elk, Franz Boas, & Carlos Castaneda. Photos.Narby, Jeremy is the author of 'Shamans Through Time 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge' with ISBN 9780756757762 and ISBN 0756757762.