The book deals with the problem of the origins of the terminus shaman, discussed since the word has find its way into the "western" language in the 17th / 18th

According to José Stevens and Lena Stevens, business leaders and shamans share many important traits: the abilities to solve problems, to achieve goals, to see

Native Americans believed that it was their responsibility to maintain harmony in the natural world on which they depended by performing a variety of rituals. S

Kehoe (anthropology, U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) seeks to inoculate her students against the mushy thinking she finds concerning shamans and shamanism. She trace

Cover -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Approaching shamanism -- 2 Eighteenth and nineteenth-century interpretations -- 3 Early twentieth-century Am