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

In this myth-shattering book, distinguished anthropologist Barbara Tedlock, 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 the ancient tradition of shamanism, from its prehistoric beginnings to the work of women shamans across the globe today.

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.


From the Hardcover edition.