Ethnic Tribal category: 190 books
The Land Looks After Us
A History of Native American Religion
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
Native Americans practice some of America's most spiritually profound, historically resilient, and ethically demanding religions. Joel Martin draws his narrative from folk stories, rituals, and even landscapes to trace the development of Native American religion from ancient burial mounds, through...
A Culture's Catalyst
Historical Encounters with Peyote and the Native American Church in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
In 1956, pioneering psychedelic researchers Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond were invited to join members of the Red Pheasant First Nation near North Battleford, Saskatchewan, to participate in a peyote ceremony hosted by the Native American Church of Canada. Inspired by their experience, they wrote...
World of the Teton Sioux Indians
Their Music, Life, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Sometime in August of 1913, two Sioux warriors, Old Buffalo and Swift Dog, met with Frances Densmore at a makeshift recording site in McLaughlin, South Dakota. What Old Buffalo and Swift Dog said that day—about life as they knew it before the reservation era began—lives on still in the pages of this...
by Laura Chen
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
All About Feng Shui Will Familiarize You With Feng Shui In The Home, Decorating, Meaning Of Feng Shui, Feng Shui Water And the Cycle OF Life and Feng Shui Bascis
Ayahuasca
Soul Medicine of the Amazon Jungle. A Comprehensive and Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
**"**I highly recommended this book for anyone wishing to work with this plant in a safe and professional manner." - Noel Sweeney (5 star review)
Ayahuasca is a traditional spiritual medicine used by the indigenous people in South America. While it is largely used during shamanistic...
by Alice Werner
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Myths and Legends of the Bantu
by Alice Werner
The rich traditions of the Bantu.
Most of the books below also have material on the Bantu of West Africa.
"Myths and Legends of the Bantu is a book by Alice Werner published in 1933. It contains legends and myths from the Bantu culture...
Sky Shamans of Mongolia
Meetings with Remarkable Healers
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Part travelogue, part experiential spiritual memoir, Kevin Turner takes us to visit with authentic shamans in the steppes and urban centers of modern-day Mongolia. Along the way, the author, a practicing shaman himself, tells of spontaneous medical diagnoses, all-night shamanic ceremonies, and miraculous...
by Ernest J. Eitel
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Feng Shui, or, The Rudiments Of Natural Science In Chinaby Ernest J. Eitel
Feng Shui is much more than a way of arranging furniture for good luck. The Chinese geomancers have a very intricate set of beliefs with roots in Animism, Taoism and Confucianism. Feng shui teaches that the earth has...
by Baba Ifa Karade
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1994
In this introductory volume, Baba Ifa Karade provides an easily understandable overview of the Yoruba religion. He describes 16 orisha and shows us how to work with divination, to use the chakras to internalize the teachings of Yoruba, and describes how to create a sacred place of worship. Includes...
Honey in the River
Shadow, Sex and West African Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Marsha Scarbrough’s quest for spiritual wisdom led her to study West African shamanism with a Nigerian ceremonial leader and master drummer. The quest transformed into romance, then betrayal, and ultimately, tragedy. Honey in the River, her memoir of the sexy, stormy, spiritual romance with that polygamous...
Ownership and Nurture
Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general. Property and ownership have special significance and carry specific...
Animism in Rainforest and Tundra
Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Amazonia and Siberia, classic regions of shamanism, have long challenged ‘western’ understandings of man’s place in the world. By exploring the social relations between humans and non-human entities credited with human-like personhood (not only animals and plants, but also ‘things’ such...
Animism beyond the Soul
Ontology, Reflexivity, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
How might we envision animism through the lens of the ‘anthropology of anthropology’? The contributors to this volume offer compelling case studies that demonstrate how indigenous animistic practices, concepts, traditions, and ontologies are co-authored in highly reflexive ways by anthropologists...
by John F. Mulholland
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
This is a comprehensive guide to the diverse religious history of Hawaii.
Beginning with the religion of ancient Hawaii, depicting the arrival of the first missionaries, and, religion by religion, covering each faith as it came to Hawaii, the author thoroughly describes the inception and harmonious...