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
- 807
- Earliest
- 1664
- to 2026
- Read free
- 4%
- 36 with public full text
- With covers
- 33%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match757
- Metadata match49
- 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
- Shamanism282
- Schamanismus144
- Chamanisme111
- Spirit possession111
- History78
- Social Sciences71
- RELIGION70
- Shamans55
- Fiction54
- Philosophy52
- Arts and Humanities50
- Anthropology43
- Text42
- Archaeology41
- Chamanismo41
- Art40
- Non-fiction literature38
- Szamanizm38
- Psychology36
- Sjamanisme33
- Šamanismus31
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices30
- Sociology30
- Schamanism27
Top languages
- English428 · 53%
- German90 · 11%
- French64 · 8%
- Spanish46 · 6%
- Czech32 · 4%
Notable authors
All authors- Carlos Castaneda15 in this tradition16 books
- Mircea Eliade8 in this tradition14 books
- Jörgen I Eriksson7 books
- Alberto Villoldo6 in this tradition8 books
- Michael J Harner6 books
- Nevill Drury5 in this tradition7 books
- Sandra Ingerman5 in this tradition6 books
- T'ae-han Hong5 books
- Richelle Mead4 in this tradition11 books
- Harald Meller4 in this tradition7 books
- Jeremy Narby4 books
- Kazuki Takahashi4 books
807 books
- Read free
Letters on demonology and witchcraft
Walter Scott, Henry Morley
1830
- 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
- Read free
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
Horizons of Shamanism: A Triangular Approach to the History and Anthropology of Ecstatic Techniques
Peter Jackson
2016
- Read free
Mythic Discourses
Frog, Anna-Leena Siikala, Eila Stepanova
2012
- Read free
The Animist Imagination in East Asian Cinema
Pao-chen Tang
2025
- Read free
The Owners of Kinship
Luiz Costa
2018
- Read free
Gypsy sorcery and fortune telling
Charles Godfrey Leland
1891
- 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
- Read free
Urban Shamans
Rivadossi, Silvia | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-
2020Italian
- Read free
Chapter 18 Derivative and Associative Popular Frazerism
Alessandro Testa
2025
- Read free
Chapter 6 Beyond curses
Mally Stelmaszyk
2022
- Read free
Rituals in Slavic Pre-Christian Religion
Enrique Santos Marinas, Juan Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa
2023
- Read free
Techniques of Spiritual Experience
Jean-Pierre Brach, Thierry Zarcone
2025
- Read free
The City by the Pool
D Stocker, Alan G Vince
2003
- Read free
The Hmong of Australia
Nicholas Tapp, Gary Yia Lee
2010
- Read free
Thirty Years Among the Dead
Carl Wickland
1924
- Read free
The Best Psychic Stories
Joseph Lewis French
1920
- Read free
Chapter 2 First Contacts, Slavery and Kinship in North-Eastern Amazonia
Marc Brightman, Vanessa Grotti
2016
Shaman
Joan Halifax
1982
- Read free
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Ester Bianchi, Daniela Campo, Maurizio Paolillo
2022Italian