Barbara Tedlock, Ph.D., is the granddaughter of an Ojibwe midwife and herbalist and was trained and initiated as a shaman by the K'iche' Maya of highland Guatemala. She is currently Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at SUNY Buffalo and Research Associate at the School of American Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For many years she co-edited "The American Anthropologist" with her husband, Dennis Tedlock. The author of four previous books and numerous essays, she divides her time between Buffalo, New York, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Praise for "Woman in the Shaman's Body:
"
"Healing, birthing children, gathering and growing food, keeping
communities in balance, presiding over ceremonies and rites
passage, maintaining relations with the dead, teaching, ministering
to those in need, communing with nature to learn her secrets,
preserving the wisdom traditions, divining the future, and dancing
with gods and goddesses-these are shamanic arts. "And these are the
arts of women." In a thoughtful way, Barbara Tedlock traces the
true history of shamanism, a history in which women have always
been an integral and creative part. "The Woman in the Shaman's
Body"illuminates the oftentimes hidden, and sometimes openly
suppressed, feminine spirit that is shamanism, that is healing,
that is life." --Bonnie Horrigan
Executive Director, Society for Shamanic Practitioners
"This book is a highly readable yet comprehensive and definitive
study of the role of women in shamanism. It is without doubt the
best book ever written about the female role in shamanism and
perhaps the best book ever done on shamanism itself."--Timothy J.
Knab, Ph.D.,
Author of "A Scattering of Jades" and "A War of Witches
"
"Barbara Tedlock did a brilliant job of weaving together her own
story
of shamanic initiation along with an incredible depth of research.
She shatters
current myths about shamanism and shows how women were the
originators and
key practitioners of shamanic healing and divination. In a time
where we see so many women engaging in shamanic practice Tedlock
offers valuable insight into the long-standing role of women in
this ancient path. I truly loved reading this book!"--Sandra
Ingerman, author of "Soul Retrieval" and "Medicine for the
Earth
"
"Scholars and lay readers alike are indebted to Barbara Tedlock for
combining her personal and professional experience in this
insightful, cross-cultural interpretation of shamanism."--Douglas
Sharon, director, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Ant
Praise for "Woman in the Shaman's Body:
"Healing, birthing children, gathering and growing food, keeping
communities in balance, presiding over ceremonies and rites
passage, maintaining relations with the dead, teaching, ministering
to those in need, communing with nature to learn her secrets,
preserving the wisdom traditions, divining the future, and dancing
with gods and goddesses-these are shamanic arts. "And these are the
arts of women. In a thoughtful way, Barbara Tedlock traces the true
history of shamanism, a history in which women have always been an
integral and creative part. "The Woman in the Shaman's Body
illuminates the oftentimes hidden, and sometimes openly suppressed,
feminine spirit that is shamanism, that is healing, that is life."
--Bonnie Horrigan
Executive Director, Society for Shamanic Practitioners
"This book is a highly readable yet comprehensive and definitive
study of the role of women in shamanism. It is without doubt the
best book ever written about the female role in shamanism and
perhaps the best book ever done on shamanism itself."--Timothy J.
Knab, Ph.D.,
Author of "A Scattering of Jades and "A War of Witches
"Barbara Tedlock did a brilliant job of weaving together her own
story
of shamanic initiation along with an incredible depth of research.
She shatters
current myths about shamanism and shows how women were the
originators and
key practitioners of shamanic healing and divination. In a time
where we see so many women engaging in shamanic practice Tedlock
offers valuable insight into the long-standing role of women in
this ancient path. I truly loved reading this book!"--Sandra
Ingerman, author of "Soul Retrievaland "Medicine for the Earth
"Scholars and lay readers alike are indebted to Barbara Tedlock for
combining her personal and professional experience in this
insightful, cross-cultural interpretation of shamanism."--Douglas
Sharon, director, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology,
Berkeley
"Barbara Tedlock is part of the present big struggle to drag
anthropology out of the rationalist and anti-humanist black hole in
which it has found itself. Barbara Tedlock started her career in
anthropology with the "distant coolness of a scientific observer."
But the K'iche' Maya among whom she worked responded by healing her
in her illness. They thenceforth taught her to practice as a healer
herself. This is the pattern in advanced anthropology today. Now
Barbara Tedlock has written the definitive book on women's
shamanism-its history, the way it is activated, and its particular
roots in the woman's body and in her powers of creation and
procreation. The book is simply written, full of real stories, real
dreams, and real shaman journeys. It will be a treasure for all
adventurous women."--Edith Turner, Editor-in-chief of "Anthropology
and Humanism, published by University of Virginia; author of
"Experiencing Ritual and "The Hands Feel It
"This is a wonderful, insightful, and compelling introduction to
Shamanism as "a healing practice and religious sensibility"
performed by women from time immemorial to the present day. Barbara
Tedlock is a working Shaman and proud descendant of Shamans native
to North America. She is also an accomplished social scientist who
understands the rules of empirical analysis that apply to the
scholarly study of religion and ritual. With the clear,
engagingprose of an expert observer and the personal experience of
a spiritual practitioner, she weaves a story that is both
autobiography and persuasive argument for the importance of women
as Shaman world-wide and throughout history." --David A. Freidel,
Ph.D., University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Southern
Methodist University
Barbara Tedlock's study of female shamans offers rare gifts:
luminous insight, exhaustive scholarly knowledge, and accessible
language that pulses with quiet intensity. After Tedlock, no one
will ever again be able to portray shamanism as a male
enterprise."
--Michael F. Brown, Ph.D. Chair, Dept. of Anthropology & Sociology
Williams College and/or as the author of "The Channeling Zone:
American Spirituality in an Anxious Age and, more recently, "Who
Owns Native Culture?
"If Joseph Campbell or Mircea Eliade had been feminists, this is a
book they could wish they had written. This canon-busting romp
across history and around the globe, from Paleolithic Europe to
contemporary North America, insists on the centrality of women to
the shamanic traditions that have until now been considered the
province of men. Drawing on her training in the healing arts as a
young child by her Ojibwa grandmother, her later professional
training with Mayan shamans in Guatemala, and her more recent
observations of shamanic rituals in Mongolia, Tedlock has created a
formidable work: a meticulously researched yet delightfully
absorbing compendium of women's shamanic skills across time and
space."--Alma Gottlieb, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology at
University of Illinois; co-editor of "Blood Magic, and "A World of
Babies; President, Society for Humanistic Anthropology
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