Woman in the Shaman's Body Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine

Name: Woman in the Shaman's Body Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine
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ISBN: 9780553379716

ISBN-10: 0553379712

ISBN-13: 9780553379716

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Authors: Barbara Tedlock

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A distinguished anthropologist–who is also an initiated shaman–reveals the long-hidden female roots of the world’s oldest form of religion and medicine. Here is a fascinating expedition into this ancient tradition, from its prehistoric beginnings to the work of women shamans across the globe today. Shamanism was not only humankind’s first spiritual and healing practice, it was originally the domain of women. This is the claim of Barbara Tedlock’s provocative and myth-shattering book. Reinterpreting generations of scholarship, Tedlock–herself an expert in dreamwork, divination, and healing–explains how and why the role of women in shamanism was misinterpreted and suppressed, and offers a…

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List price: $18.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/27/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.24" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Dennis Tedlock is McNulty Professor of English and Research Professor of Anthropology and Barbara Tedlock is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo.




Reclaiming History



Old Wisdom



Healing and the Seekers of Knowledge: What Shamans Do



Handprints on a Cave Wall: Women Shamans in Prehistory



Summoning Whales, Serpents, and Bears: Women Shamans in History



The Disappearing Act: How Female Shamanism Was Eclipsed



Shamanic Traditions in Action



The Mystical Union: Eroticism, Ecstasy, and Trance



Riding the Wind Horse: A Shamanic Performance



Crossroads Between Worlds: The Power of Dreaming



The Dolphin Wore Diamonds: Following the Path of Dreams



Song of the Coneflower: Herbalism and Plant Power



The Flowery Dream: The Shamanic Use of Psychedelics



The Female Cycle: Menstruation, Birth, and Creation



Butterflies in the Moonlight: Blood Magic



The Sacred, the Dangerous, and the Forbidden: Menstrual Taboos as Feminine Power



Calling Forth the Spirits: Birth, Ritual, and the Midwife's Art



Tied to the Fabric of the Sky: Weavers and Celestial Goddesses



Lightning in the Shadows: A Midnight Healing Seance



The Power of Gender and Shamanic Revitalization



Uniting Separate Realms: Gender Shifting in Shamanism



Brave Acts and Visions: Women Warriors and Prophets



Rekindling the Flame: Shamanic Revitalization and Reconstruction


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