Shamans Through Time: Tricksters, Healers, Voodoo Priests and Anthropologists

With the illustrious anthropologist Francis Huxley of the renowned Huxley clan; a leading figure in Native American and American Studies, the late, beloved professor John Mohawk; and groundbreaking anthropological thinker and author Jeremy Narby. Practices by different indigenous people around the world were labeled “shamanism” by anthropologists and dismissed as irrational superstition, but in the 20th Century cultural observers began to see shamans in a new light, as creators of meaning. Are science and shamanism compatible? Is indigenous knowledge safe for a modern, secular world?