Manvir Singh's Shamanism: The Timeless Religion blends vivid ethnography, global exploration, and theoretical debate to argue that shamanism is a persistent human tendency
Portals of Power: Shamanism in South America. E. Jean Matteson Langdon and Gerhard Baer, editors. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992. vii + 350 pp., figures, bibliography, index. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN 0–8263–1345–0.
To Square with Genesis: Causal Statements and Shamanic ideas in Wayãpí. ALAN TORMAID CAMPBELL. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989. v + 198pp. Illustrated. $28.95 (cloth). ISBN 0–87745–248–2.