Douglas Sharon
Douglas G. Sharon | |
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Born | 1941/01/23 |
Nationality | Canadian |
Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles |
Known for | Studying Peruvian uses of entheogenic and medicinal plants |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Anthropology |
Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles |
Douglas Sharon is a Canadian cultural anthropologist (UCLA), ethnobotanist and shamanism scholar who has directed both the University of California/Berkeley's Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology and the San Diego Museum of Man. He has conducted more than 40 years of field research and published on pre-Columbian and modern shamanic practices in Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador and Bolivia.
His ethnographic film entitled Eduardo the Healer[1] is utilized in university-level anthropology courses and has won awards at the American, Modern Language, and John Muir Medical film festivals.[citation needed] Sharon directs projects in cultural anthropology and lectures internationally on the integration of traditional healing practices with modern public health systems.[citation needed]
Bibliography
[edit]As a sole author
[edit]- Wizard of the Four Winds—A Shaman's Story (1978). New. York: The Free Press.
- Shamanism & the sacred cactus: ethnoarchaeological evidence for San Pedro use in northern Perú (2000). San Diego: San Diego Museum of Man.
As an editor
[edit]- Mesas & Cosmologies in Mesoamerica (2003) (ed.). San Diego: San Diego Museum of Man.
As coauthor
[edit]- Sorcery and Shamanism: Curanderos and Clients in Northern Peru with Donald Joralemon. (1993) Salt Lak City: University of Utah.
Academic Articles
[edit]- A Peruvian Curandero’s Séance: Power and Balance by Sharon, Douglas C. (1976). In The Realm of the Extra-Human: Agents and Audiences (9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago). A. Bharati, ed., pp. 371–81. The Hague: Mouton.
- Distribution of the Mesa in Latin America by Sharon, Douglas C. (1976). In Journal of Latin American Lore 2(1):75-91.
- The Magic Cactus: Ethnoarchaeological Continuity in Peru by Sharon, Douglas C. & Christopher B. Donnan (1977). In Archaeology 30 (6):374-381. New York: The Archeological Institute of American.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Renowned scholar of Peruvian traditions to speak at Anthropology Museum Utah State University
- UC Berkeley's anthropology museum announces the hiring of its first full-time director University of Berkeley
- Faculty Research Spotlight: Douglas Sharon Latin American Studies Association, San Diego.
- Review of his 1978 Eduardo the Healer documentary Wiley Online Library
- WorldCat Identities Douglas Sharon
- Research Gate Douglas Sharon
- IdRef Douglas Sharon