A Shamanistic and Animistic Book List

This is not a definitive list, but it is hopefully a useful list of books which contain accurate
information about different traditions and types of shamanism and animism.
Certain authors have not been included, as despite being popular, and considered
authentic by some people, their books not accurate or are works of fiction.
These include authors such as Carlos Castaneda, Lyn Andrews,
Alberto Villoldo, Simon Buxton and Terrence McKennas.
This booklist is only complied from books written in English, some of the books are already available in
other languages and there are no doubt excellent books in other languages also available

CORE AND CROSS CULTURAL SHAMANISM C Michael Smith

• Jung and Shamanism in Dialogue
Sandra Ingerman
• Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self Andrei Znamekski
• Shamanic Journeying: A Beginner's Guide • The Beauty of the Primitives
• Medicine for the Earth • Shamanism: Critical Concepts in Sociology
• Welcome Home
Joan Halifax
Michael Harner • Shaman:The Wounded Healer
• The Way of a Shaman
• Cave and Cosmos Holger Kalweit
• Dreamtime and Inner Space
Caitlin Matthews • Shamans, Healers, and Medicine Men
• Singing the Soul Back Home
Christina Pratt HIMALAYAN SHAMANISM
• An Encyclopedia of Shamanism Bhola Nath Banstola and Evelyn C. Rysdyk
• The Nepalese Shamanic Path
John Perkins
• Shape Shifting Christian Ratsch and Claudia Muller-Ebeling
• Shamanism and Tantra in the Himalayas
Nan Moss and David Corbin
• Weather Shamanism Larry Peters
• Tibetan Shamanism: Ecstasy and Healing
Evelyn Rysdyk
• Spirit Walking: A Course in Shamanic Power O C Handa
• Naga Cults and Traditions in the Western Himalaya
Daniel Foor
• Ancestral Medicine Angela Sumegi
• Dreamworlds of Shamanism and Tibetan Buddhism
Jez Hughes
• The Heart of Life
MONGOLIAN & SIBERIAN SHAMANISM
SHAMANISM & ANIMISM - GENERAL Sarangerel Odigon
• Riding windhorses
Piers Vitebsky
• Chosen by the spirits
• The Shaman
Jan Van Ysslestyne
Mircea Eliade
• Spirits from the Edge of the World: Classical
• Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
Shamanism in Ulchi Society
Jeremy Narby
Virlana Tkacz, Sayan Zhambalov and Wanda Phipps
• Shamans through Time
• Shanar: Dedication Ritual of a Buryat Shaman
Joseph Campbell in Siberia
• The Way of the Animal Powers
Manduhai Buyandelger
Graham Harvey • Tragic Spirits: Gender, politics, and society in
• Shamanism a Reader Buryad shamanism
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Caroline Humphrey and Urgunge Onon Wallace Black Elk and William S. Lyon
• Shamans and Elders • Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a Lakota
Kevin Turner William K. Powers
• Sky Shamans • Yuwipi:Vision and Experience in Oglala Ritual
• Oglala Religion
Marjorie Mandelstam Balze
• Shamanic Worlds Bear Heart and Molly Larkin
• The Wind is My Mother
Olga Kharitidi
• Entering the Circle Clyde Kluckhohn
• Navaho Witchcraft
Dmitry Ermakov
• Bo and Bon Evelyn Eaton
• Snowy Earth Comes Gliding
Kira Van Deusen • I send a Voice
• Singing Story - Healing Drum • The Shaman and the Medicine Wheel
Purev Otgony and Purvee Gurbadaryn Joseph Epes Brown
• Mongolian Shamanism • Animals of the Soul: Sacred Animals of the
Alexei Konovalov Oglala Sioux
• Between Worlds; Shamanism of the
peoples of Siberia CELTIC, ANGLO SAXON, SAMI
AND NORSE TRADITIONS
Valenyina Gorbatcheva and Marian Federova
• Art of Siberia Maria Kvilhaug
• Seed of Yggdrasil
William W.Fitzhugh and Aron Crowell
• Crossroads of Continents: Cultures Philip Carr-Gomm
of Siberia and Alaska • Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century
Patricia Rieff Anawalt Tom Cowan
• Shamanic Regalia in the Far North: shamanic • Fire in the head
practices in Northeast Siberia, Alaska and British
Evelyn Rysdyk
Columbia
• The Norse Shaman
NATIVE NORTH AMERICAN TRADITiONS Corinne G. Dempsey
• Bridges between Worlds: Spirits and Spirit Work
Albert White Hat Sr. in Northern Iceland
• Life's Journey - Zuya: Oral Teachings from Rosebud
Peter Berresford Ellis
John Fire Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes • The Druids
• Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions
Brian Bates
Archie Fire Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes • The Real Middle-Earth: Magic and Mystery
• Gift of Power in the Dark Ages
Thomas E Mails • The Wisdom Of The Wyrd: Teachings For Today
• Fools Crow From Our Ancient Past
• Fools Crow,Wisdom and Power Brian Wright
• Mystic Warriors of the Plains • Bridgid; Goddess, Druidess and Saint
Suzanne Dupree
• Fools Crow, Knowledge and Truth David Clarke and Andy Roberts
• Twilight of the Celtic Gods
Ed McGaa Eagle Man
• Mother Earth Spirituality Thor Ewing
• Gods and Worshippers in the Viking
Tilda Long Soldier and Germanic World
• Walking in a Sacred Manner: Healers, Dreamers,
and Medicine Women of the Plains Indians John O'Donohue:
• Anam Cara: Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World
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Ailo Gaup Don Jose Campos
• The Shamanic Zone • The Shaman and Ayahuasca
Travis Bodick
WOMEN’S TRADITiONS • How The Earth Saved My Soul
Barbara Tedlock
Jonathon Miller Weisberger
• The Woman in the Shaman's Body
• Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science
Michele Jamal and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon
• Shape Shifters: Shaman Women in
E.Jean Matteson Langdon and Gerhard Baer
Contemporary Society
• Portals of Power: Shamanism in South America
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
• Women Who Run With The Wolves SHAMANISM AND ART AND CRAFT
Faith Nolton
AFRICAN TRADITiONS • Gardens of the Soul: Making Sacred and Shamanic Art
Malidoma Patrice Some
Meinrad Craighead
• Of Water and the Spirit
• Crow Mother and the Dog God, a Retrospective
John Lockley
Gabriel Tamaya
• Leopard Warrior
• Luminous Cartography
CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN Howard G. Charing and Peter Cloudsley
AMERICAN TRADITiONS • The Ayahuasca Visions of Pablo Amaringo
Hillary S. Webb Luis Eduardo Luna and Pablo Amaringo
• Yanantin and Masintin in the Andean World • Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography
of a Peruvian Shaman
Marisol De La Cadena
• Indigenous Mestizos Nicholas Breeze Wood
• Voice from the Earth (a book about sacred craft work,
Joan Parisi Wilcox including beadwork and drum and rattle making)
• Masters of the Living Energy: The Mystical
World of the Q'ero of Peru
JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES
Bruce Lamb and Manuel Cordova-Rios
Sacred Hoop Magazine
• Wizard of the Upper Amazon
• www.sacredhoop.org
F. Bruce Lamb
Indie Shaman
• Rio Tigre and Beyond
• www.indieshaman.co.uk
Stephan Beyer
Shaman’s Drum Magazine
• Singing To The Plants
• Now no longer published, look out for used copies.
Tom Pinkson
• The Flowers of the Wirrikuta
Joseph Tafur MD and Gabor Maté MD
• The Fellowship Of The River
Jeremy Narby
• The Cosmic Serpent
Rachel Harris
• Listening to Ayahuasca
Ross Heaven
• The Hummingbirds Journey to God
• Cactus of Mystery
• Drinking the Four Winds

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