Shamans Through Time (pb reprint)
Publisher: Tarcher
Published: September 9, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781585423620
Subjects: Sociology; Social Science; Alternate Spirituality; Spirituality - Shamanism; Body, Mind & Spirit / Healing / Prayer & Spiritual; General
First sentence: In the early sixteenth century, Spanish navigator and natural historian Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo described old men using tobacco to communicate with spirits among the indigenous inhabitants of Hispaniola (the island currently comprising Haiti and the Dominican Republic).