by Piers Vitebsky · EVERGREEN · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783822854327
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«Los chamanes» is an illustrated guide to shamanism by Piers Vitebsky, published by Evergreen in paperback (184 pages, in Spanish).
The book traces shamanism from Siberia to the Amazon and analyzes its historical and contemporary variants. It addresses its medical, psychological and psychiatric dimensions, and describes the cosmology, initiatory rites, visions, trances and shamanic art, as well as the social and religious role of the shaman.
Subtitled «El viaje del alma, fuerzas y poderes mágicos, éxtasis y curación», it includes more than 250 illustrations, most in color, and an afterword by Jean Malaurie.
For readers interested in spirituality, anthropology and shamanic traditions, as well as in the history of religions.
Piers Vitebsky is an anthropologist who was Head of Anthropology and Russian Northern Studies and Assistant Director of Research at the Scott Polar Research Institute of the University of Cambridge in England.
