Oorspronkelijke titel: The Shaman (1995)
Vertaling: Theo van der Ster en Inge Gans
Met bibliografie en Register
Alsmede kleurkaarten en een register van sjamaanse culturen.
In dit boek worden de kernbegrippen van het sjamanisme beschreven en geïllustreerd.
Thema's als genezing, visioenen, inwijdingsriten, trances,
inclusief de spirituele en psychologische aspecten, en de relevantie voor de westerse samenleving
De vele illustraties zijn afkomstig uit vele tijden en culturen.

Piers Vitebsky is an anthropologist and is the Head of Social Science at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, England.
Since the 1980s, Vitebsky has carried out long-term fieldwork among with the Evens of Siberia, and among shamans and shifting cultivators in tribal India and Sri Lanka. In the Russian Arctic, he was the first westerner since the Revolution to live long-term with an indigenous community. Only after working for several months at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in Leningrad was he allowed to fly out to Yakutsk in 1988.

Vitebsky has been Head of Anthropology and Russian Northern Studies at the Scott Polar Research Institute since 1986.
His current focus is on reindeer herders' perceptions of and responses to climate change.
Media work
Vitebsky's numerous documentary film collaborations include 'Arctic aviators' (National Geographic) and 'Flightpaths to the gods' (BBC2, on the Nazca lines in Peru), and 'Siberia: after the shaman' (Channel 4), which won first prize at the Film Festival of the European Foundation for the Environment and was screened at the Margaret Mead Film Festival in New York City.

Desana - Eskimo's /Inuit - Evenken - Jakoeten - Sora