Month: March 2022

Harvey, Graham (1959– ) – Lecturer in religious studies at the Open University, Great Britain. In addition to an edited volume (2003) collecting some of…

Harner, Michael – Arguably the most prominent figure in the introduction of practical shamanism to Westerners and its reintroduction into indigenous communities, via the Foundation…

Hamayon, Roberte – French linguist and ethnologist. Hamayon has conducted extensive research on Mongolian peoples and shamanism in Mongolia, Siberia, and China. She has drawn…

Hallowell, A. Irving “Pete” (1892–1974) – Anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania whose research among the Ojibwe of south-central Canada between 1930 and 1940 led…

Halifax, Joan – According to her website, Joan Halifax Roshi is “a Buddhist teacher, Shaman and anthropologist,” having been a faculty member of Columbia University,…

Grof, Stanislav (1931– ) – Internationally known psychiatrist, one of the founders of transpersonal psychology, and a pioneer of LSD research. Grof’s early research on…

Grim, John (1946– ) Professor of religion at Harvard University and cofounder and codirector (with Mary Evelyn Tucker) of the Forum on Religion and Ecology.…

Greenwood, Susan – Anthropologist and Pagan teaching undergraduate courses on shamanism and altered states of consciousness at the University of Sussex in Great Britain. Greenwood…

Greenland – The world’s largest island, situated in the Arctic, Greenland has indigenous Inuit and immigrant Danish inhabitants. The Inuit angakkoq (shaman), discussed by such…

Goodman, Felicitas(1914–2005) – Anthropologist who claimed that various prehistoric remains and the imagery of certain indigenous artistic traditions point toward specific stances or “postures” that…