Anthropologists study human culture around the world, and they have given us thoughtful and detailed firsthand observations of many shamanic cultures and traditions. | ||
 |  |  |
| Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
Mircea Eliade In this groundbreaking classic, Eliade examined shamanism many different cultures and millennia of human history. | Shamanism
Piers Vitebsky This richly illustrated volume surveys shamanic practices around the world. | Shamans Through Time
Jeremy Narby Collection of historical writings describing encounters with shamans and shamanic traditions in many different times and places. |
 |  | |
| Shamanism: A Reader
Graham Harvey Collection of essays with perspectives from anthropology, psychology, musicology, botany, and other disciplines. | Ecstatic Religion: A Study of Shamanism and Spirit Possession
I.M. Lewis Lewis explores the ecstatic state described as being possessed by divinity or by spirits, and finds common threads across diverse traditions. | |
|
| Anthropologists on Shamanism |
