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By Jeremy Narby with Francis Huxley
Review by Sandra Hale Schulman
News From Indian Country
A fascinating look back at five centuries of writings on the world’s great shamans – the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers. This unusual book reprints the words of philosophers and men of the cloth who have been fascinated observers of shamans for centuries.
A deeply researched collection of essays traces Western civilization’s struggle to interpret and understand the ancient knowledge of cultures that revere magic men and women – individuals with the power to summon spirits. As written by priests, explorers, adventurers, natural historians, and anthropologists, the pieces of this sometimes bizarre puzzle express the wonder of strangers in new worlds.
