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- ISBN 9780759120266
- Weight: 583g
- Dimensions: 169 x 245mm
- Publication Date: 16 Nov 2010
- Publisher: AltaMira Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The culmination of 34 years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, this book offers ground-breaking insights into fundamental principles of Huichol shamanism and ritual. The scope and length of Fikes's research, combined with the depth of his participation with four Huichol shamans, enable him to convey with empathy details of shamanic initiation, methods for diagnosis and treatment of illness, and motives for performing funeral, deer and peyote hunting, and maize-cultivating rituals.
Jay Courtney Fikes teaches social anthropology at Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Turkey.
