Product Description: Los pueblos modernos han olvidado que vivimos en relacion fraternal con todos los seres y las fuerzas del mundo natural. Hoy la ciencia tiende a redefinir lo invisible como irreal, y eso nos ha hecho olvidar que todos somos filamentos luminosos en una red gigante de pertenencia...read more

Product Description: In this uniquely personal account of the lives and healing arts of female shamans in northern Peru, the author alternates diaristic writings about her own experiences with ethnographic description. Her analytical essays explore the concepts of sorcery, shamanism, and witchcraft, case studies of Peruvian women and their ritual healing techniques, the healers' religious and symbolic space, and the healing attributes unique to women...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)