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.
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 |
| Eduardo the healer | |
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| Directed by | Richard Cowan |
| Based on | Wizard of the Four Winds by Douglas Sharon |
| Produced by | Douglas G. Sharon and Richard Cowan |
| Starring | Eduardo Calderon Palomino |
| Narrated by | Vic Perrin, Roberto Tafur and Roberto Cruzalegui |
Release date |
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Running time | 0:55:00 |
| Country | Canada |
| Languages | English and Spanish |
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
editAs 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
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editExternal 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