Tradition 22 of 33
Shamanism and spirit practice
Shamanic traditions, spirit journeys, trance practices, and cross-cultural spirit mediation.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 901
- Earliest
- 1191
- to 2026
- Read free
- 6%
- 53 with public full text
- With covers
- 32%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match845
- 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 possession117
- Chamanisme112
- History82
- Religion81
- Social Sciences71
- Shamans62
- Fiction56
- sjamanisme54
- Philosophy52
- Arts and Humanities50
- Anthropology44
- Text43
- Archaeology42
- Art41
- Chamanismo41
- Non-fiction literature39
- Psychology38
- Szamanizm38
- Šamanismus31
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices30
- Sociology30
- Schamanism27
Top languages
- English468 · 52%
- German94 · 10%
- French67 · 7%
- Spanish47 · 5%
- Czech32 · 4%
Notable authors
All authors- Carlos Castaneda15 in this tradition16 books
- Mircea Eliade9 in this tradition17 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
901 books
Shamans of the 20th Century
Ruth‐Inge Heinze
1977
Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge
Jeremy Narby, Francis Huxley
2001
Haunting of Derek Stone 02 Bayou Dogs
Tony Abbott
2009
Innføring i alternativ medisin
1996Multiple languages
To runebommer
Adolf Steen
1960Norwegian (Bokmål)
Gender in Sámi Shamanism
Trude Fonneland
2018
Das "Schamanenbuch" der Sibe-Mandschuren
Giovanni Stary, Elsi
1992German
Believe not every spirit
Moshe Sluhovsky, Mosheh Sluḥovsḳi
2007
"Roter Altai, gib dein Echo!"
Anett C. Oelschlägel, Erika Taube
2005German
Ahnen, Geister und Schamanen
Claudia Müller-Ebeling
2010German
Alcheringa oder Die beginnende Zeit
Hans Peter Duerr
1983German
Das alte Tibet
Gerhardt W. Schuster
2000German
'Vegetalismo'
Luis Eduardo Luna
1986
Ancient traditions
Gary Seaman
1994
Das geheime Wissen der Schamanen
Alberto Villoldo, Burkhard Hickisch
2026German
Die andere Wirklichkeit der Schamanen
Joan Halifax
1981
Encounters with the invisible
Marie Lecomte-Tilouine, Anne de Sales
2024
Shamanism
Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask
1964
Shamanism and Northern Ecology
Juha Pentikäinen
1996
Shamanism in Siberia
Andrei A. Znamenski
2003
Shamanism in Siberia
Vilmos Diószegi, Mihály Hoppál
1978
Studies in Siberian shamanism
Henry N. Michael, Arctic Institute of North America
1963
The ethnopoetics of Shamanism
Marcel de Lima Santos
2014
Certain Shamanistic ceremonies among the Ojibwas
Harlan Ingersoll Smith
1896