Shamanism and Science

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WILLIAM S. LYON Anthropologist

Born in 1941 in San Francisco, US. 1970 Ph.D. in anthropology from University of Kansas. Over 35 years of study of North American Indian shamans and participation in sacred ceremonies with an emphasis on Lakota Sioux and Navajo. Publications: Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a Lakota, 1990. Encyclopedia of Native American Healing, 1998. Encyclopedia of Native American Shamanism, 1998. Spirit Talkers: North American Indian Medicine Powers, 2012.

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