Author: Lux Ferre

Central Asia – Indigenous shamanisms, Buddhism, and Islam meet in this vast landlocked region, and considerable interaction has resulted in many creative fusions and cultural…

Central America – This region, stretching from Mexico to the northwest of Costa Rica, is home to many pre-Hispanic indigenous cultures, including the Olmec, Aztec,…

Center for Spirit – An organization, headquartered in Oakland, California, of Native American people dedicated to the preservation and revitalization of American Indian sacred traditions…

Celts – Prehistoric Indo-European Iron Age tribes that lived in preRoman northwest Europe and colonized Europe west of the Danube from around 1000 BCE; also,…

Cave art – European Paleolithic painted and engraved rock art imagery, especially in the caves of France (such as Lascaux) and Spain (such as Altamira),…

Carson, David – Creator of “Medicine Cards,” a style of Tarot deck that uses illustrations of animals, especially those indigenous to North America and of…

Caribbean – A variety of practices evolved in the Caribbean interaction of indigenous-, African-, European-, and Asian-derived religious traditions. Some of these (e.g., Comfa, Myal,…

Cannibalism – The seemingly ubiquitous fear of cannibalism is expressed in many similar myths and allegations about cannibals in many cultures. Shamans may be expected…

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) – American scholar best known for his work on world mythology, as well as a popular public speaker and storyteller. In the…

Campbell, Alan T. – Anthropologist (then at Edinburgh University) whose book Getting to Know Waiwai (1995) is a reflexive ethnography of the Wayapí of Amazonia.…