Tradition 22 of 35
Shamanism and spirit practice
Shamanic traditions, spirit journeys, trance practices, and cross-cultural spirit mediation.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 905
- Earliest
- 1191
- to 2026
- Read free
- 7%
- 59 with public full text
- With covers
- 32%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match849
- Metadata match50
- Query match5
- Source classification (retained through merging)1
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- Shamanism319
- Schamanismus144
- Spirit possession119
- Chamanisme112
- Religion83
- History82
- Social Sciences71
- Shamans63
- Fiction57
- sjamanisme54
- Philosophy52
- Arts and Humanities50
- Anthropology44
- Text43
- Archaeology42
- Art41
- Chamanismo41
- Non-fiction literature39
- Szamanizm38
- psychology38
- Šamanismus31
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices30
- Sociology30
- Schamanism27
Top languages
- English468 · 52%
- German93 · 10%
- French67 · 7%
- Spanish47 · 5%
- Czech32 · 4%
Notable authors
All authors- Carlos Castaneda15 in this tradition16 books
- Mircea Eliade9 in this tradition18 books
- Alberto Villoldo7 in this tradition9 books
- Jörgen I Eriksson7 books
- Nevill Drury6 in this tradition10 books
- Michael J Harner6 books
- Sandra Ingerman5 in this tradition6 books
- T'ae-han Hong5 books
- Richelle Mead4 in this tradition12 books
- Harald Meller4 in this tradition7 books
- Robert J Wallis4 in this tradition5 books
- Jeremy Narby4 books
905 books
- Read free
Letters on demonology and witchcraft
Walter Scott, Henry Morley, George Cruikshank, James Ballantyne and Co. bkp CU-BANC
1830
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Gypsy sorcery and fortune telling
Charles Godfrey Leland, University of Leeds. Library
1891
- Read free
Occult Japan
Percival Lowell
1894
- Read free
Hidden rituals and public performances: Traditions and belonging among the post-Soviet Khanty, Komi and Udmurts
Anna-Leena Siikala, Oleg Ulyashev
2011
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The New Age of Russia. Occult and Esoteric Dimensions
Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, Michael Hagemeister, Birgit Menzel
2012
- Read free
The Spectral Arctic
Shane McCorristine
2018
- Read free
The medicine-men of the Apache
John Gregory Bourke, ninth Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Annual report
1892
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Horizons of Shamanism: A Triangular Approach to the History and Anthropology of Ecstatic Techniques
Peter Jackson
2016
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Mythic Discourses
Frog, Anna-Leena Siikala, Eila Stepanova
2012
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The Animist Imagination in East Asian Cinema
Pao-chen Tang
2025
- Read free
The Owners of Kinship
Luiz Costa
2018
- Read free
Faces in the smoke
Douchan Gersi
1191
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Defense of Americanism
Jacob Broom, Henry M Hugunin, Henry M. [from old catalog] Hugunin
1856
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Devil-dancers, witch-finders, rain-makers, and medicine-men
Andrew Lang
1896
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The heathen world
George Patterson
1884
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Thirty Years Among the Dead
Carl August Wickland, Carl Wickland
1924
- Read free
Why We Play
Roberte Hamayon
2016
- Read free
Itineraries of an Anthropologist
Bulian, Giovanni | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-, Rivadossi, Silvia | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-
2021
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Das Schamanenthum und sein Kultus
V. V. Radlov, Radlov, Vasiliĭ Vasilʹevich
1885German
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The Watseka Wonder
E. Winchester Stevens
1878
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Buddizm
Archbishop of Yaroslavl Nil
1858Russian
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Suomen suvun pakanallinen jumalanpalvelus
Julius Leopold Fredrik Krohn, Julius Krohn
1894Finnish
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Urban Shamans
Rivadossi, Silvia | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-
2020Italian
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The case of Saul, shewing that his disorder was a real spiritual possession, and proving ... that actual possession of spirits were generally acknowledged by the ancient writers ... First printed in the year 1777, as an appendix to A tract on the law of nature and principles of action in man. To which is added a short tract wherein the influence of demons are further illustrated by remarks on Timothy IV, 1-3
Granville Sharp
1807