The term "Shaman" refers to healers and medicine people regarded as mediators between the world of the living and the world of spirits. This guide, richly illustrated with over 250 color photos, drawings and maps, looks at both historic and present-day manifestations. Visions, rites, chants, herbs and social context are all discussed, as is shamanism's relationship to the recent development of ecological consciousness in Western societies.

184 pages.
Softcover.
8" x 5.5".