Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine
Combining impeccable research with dramatic and intimate personal experience, THE WOMAN IN THE SHAMAN'S BODY is the first book to reveal the long-hidden female tradition within shamanism, and the healing and visionary powers that are unique to women.
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.
Combining impeccable research with dramatic and intimate personal experience, THE WOMAN IN THE SHAMAN'S BODY is the first book to reveal the long-hidden female tradition within shamanism, and the healing and visionary powers that are unique to women.
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.
