The Woman in the Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine
10 best books like The Woman in the Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine (Barbara Tedlock): Dalai Lama, My Son: A Mother's Autobiography, The Invisible Sex: Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory, Shamans Through Time, The Meghadūta of Kālidāsa, The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, The Humanistic Tradition: Prehistory to the Early Modern World (The Humanistic Tradition, #1), The Alhambra, Spices: A Global History, The 5-Minute Iliad and Other Instant Classics: Great Books For The Short Attention Span, Tea: A Global History
| Author | Diki Tsering |
| ISBN | 0670889059 |
Told in the first-person and accompanied by photographs from family archives, this autobiography follows Diki Tsering, a poor girl born in 1901, the Year of the Ox, to a peasant family, who eventually marries at age sixteen and gives birth to the future H.H. Dalai Lama. The story is told chronologically,...
| Author | J.M. Adovasio |
| ISBN | 0061170917 |
Shaped by cartoons and museum dioramas, our vision of Paleolithic times tends to feature fur-clad male hunters fearlessly attacking mammoths while timid women hover fearfully behind a boulder. In fact, recent research has shown that this vision bears little relation to reality.
The field...
| Author | Jeremy Narby |
| ISBN | 1585423629 |
A survey of five centuries of writings on the world's great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries.
This collection of essays traces Western civilization's struggle to interpret and understand the ancient knowledge of...
| Author | Kālidāsa |
| ISBN | 8120804201 |
A poem of 111 stanzas, it is one of Kālidāsa's most famous works. The work is divided into two parts, Purva-megha and Uttara-megha. It recounts how a yakṣa, a subject of King Kubera (the god of wealth), after being exiled for a year to Central India for neglecting his duties, convinces a passing cloud...
| Author | Robert E. Buswell Jr. |
| ISBN | 0691157863 |
With more than 5,000 entries totaling over a million words, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in English. It is also the first to cover terms from all of the canonical Buddhist languages and traditions: Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese,...
| Author | Gloria K. Fiero |
| ISBN | 0072910127 |
""The Humanistic Tradition" is quite simply the finest book of its type. Fiero manages to integrate the political, cultural, and social history of the world into one coherent and fascinating whole. It is a masterpiece of scholarship . . . balanced, interesting, easy to read, and consummately beautiful....
| Author | Robert Irwin |
| ISBN | 0674015681 |
A wonderfully irritable monograph, which is motivated primarily by Robert Irwin's annoyance over how other writers of poetry, fiction and guidebooks have treated the Alhambra: as a grand Romantic symbol, the pretext for a lot of ubi sunt wistfulness, and the setting of innumerable historical...
| Author | Fred Czarra |
| ISBN | 1861894260 |
The scent of oregano immediately conjures the comforts of Italian food, curry is synonymous with Indian flavor, and the fire of chili peppers ignites the cuisine of Latin America. Spices are often the overlooked essentials that define our greatest eating experiences. In this global history of spices,...
| Author | Greg Nagan |
| ISBN | 0684867672 |
Was Homer really blind, or was that just his shtick? Was Dante a righty or a lefty? Why aren't there any pictures of Jane Austen in a bikini? What made Oscar so Wilde? How much did Hemingway? These are just some of the many great questions of Western literature ignored in this book.
From the author of...
| Author | Helen Saberi |
| ISBN | 1861897766 |
From chai to oolong to sencha, tea is one of the world’s most popular beverages. Perhaps that is because it is a unique and adaptable drink, consumed in many different varieties by cultures across the globe and in many different settings, from the intricate traditions of Japanese teahouses to the...
| Author | Jeff Koehler |
| ISBN | 1620405121 |
Darjeeling's tea bushes run across a mythical landscape steeped with the religious, the sacred, and the picturesque. Planted at high elevation in the heart of the Eastern Himalayas, in an area of northern India bound by Nepal to the west, Bhutan to the east, and Sikkim to the north, the linear rows of...
| Author | Vicki Noble |
| ISBN | 0062506676 |
I enjoyed Vicki Nobles commentary. From the recommendations that I received I thought it would be one of my favorite books of all time, but I wasn't as impressed as I had anticipated. I didn't really like how she seemed to dis sorcery and tenets of magick that she didn't understand (and maybe didn't agree...
| Author | Alberto Villoldo |
| ISBN | 0609605445 |
Alberto Villoldo, a classically trained medical anthropologist, has studied shamanic healing techniques among the descendants of the ancient Inkas for more than twenty years. In Shaman, Healer, Sage, he draws on his vast body of knowledge to create a practical and revolutionary program based on...
| Author | Sandra Ingerman |
| ISBN | 1591797500 |
Today, practicing shamanism doesn't mean you have to live in a rain forest or a desert. Thanks to a modern renaissance of shamanic spirituality, practitioners from all walks of life now use powerful indigenous techniques for healing, insight, and spiritual growth. With Awakening to the Spirit World,...
| Author | Alev Lytle Croutier |
| ISBN | 1558591591 |
I've been meaning to read this book for quite some time now as the idea of the harem has always set my imagination on fire.
Harem: The World Behind the Veil sets out to tell us the truth about The Great Harem and harems in general from the time of the ottoman sultans to the present.
We are told...
Cuisine and Culture: A History of Food & People
| Author | Linda Civitello |
| ISBN | 0471202800 |
An illuminating account of how history shapes our diets
Throughout history, food has played a critical and defining part in individual cultures and the overall development of civilization. Cuisine and Culture presents an engaging, informative, and amazing story of the interaction among history,...
| Author | Helen Gardner |
| ISBN | 0534640958 |
The market-leading text for the art history survey course, GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES has served as a comprehensive and thoughtfully crafted guide to the defining phases of the world's artistic tradition. With this book in hand, thousands of students have watched the story of art unfold in its...
| Author | John Bowker |
| ISBN | 0756617723 |
A refreshing approach to understanding different faiths. Detailed annotations to stunning illustrations provide intriguing insights into the world's most important religions--offering a deeper appreciation of the beliefs central to each.
World Religions looks at the beliefs and...
| Author | Hillary S. Webb |
| ISBN | 1571744037 |
This book was required reading for a course I took, and I wasn't excited about having to read it. The murky waters of neoshamanism are often challenging to tread and I wasn't sure what to expect. I come from a reconstructionist tradition on several fronts, and most often find that modern shamans who claim...
| Author | Serge Kahili King |
| ISBN | 0671683071 |
Now, even if you can't get out into the wilderness or undertake a long apprenticeship, you can learn to practice the art of shamanism. Uniquely suited for use in today's world, Hawaiian shamanism follows the way of the adventurer, which produces change through love and cooperation - in contrast to the...
| Author | Kenneth Meadows |
| ISBN | 1862040222 |
To the North American Indian, medicine meant more than just a substance to restore health and vitality to a sick body. Medicine was energy - a vital force and source of knowledge that was inherent in nature itself. This book introduces the practical workings of this means of self-development, which...
| Author | Derek Fagerstrom |
| ISBN | 0061662577 |
Show Me How is a revolutionary reimagining of the reference genre, one part how-to guide, one part graphic art showpiece, and one part pure inspiration. In a series of 500 nearly wordless, highly informative step-by-step procedurals, readers learn how to do hundreds of useful (and fascinating and...
| Author | Tom Cowan |
| ISBN | 0062501747 |
In 'The Song of Wandering Aengus' William Butler Yeats refers to the ‘fire in the head’ that characterises the visionary experience. Tom Cowan has pursued this theme in a lyrical cross-cultural exploration of shamanism and the Celtic imagination that examines the myths and tales of the ancient...
Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists
| Author | Michael Hamilton Morgan |
| ISBN | 1426200927 |
In an era when the relationship between Islam and the West seems mainly defined by mistrust and misunderstanding, we often forget that for centuries Muslim civilization was the envy of the world. Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the major role played by the early Muslim world in influencing...
