THE SOLID MANDALA by Patrick White. 309 pages. Viking. $5.Only someone able to define to a child what a spiral is without moving his right index finger can properly admire Patrick White's ...

Tedlock's book, "The Woman in a Shaman's Body," also presents empirical studies that find common shamanic practices to be very effective in medical terms and discusses why this is the case. A shaman ...

Bacigalupo says Kolipi believed that the book would “store” her power, facilitate its circulation among the Mapuche, and so enable her to communicate with them after her death. Bacigalupo says that to ...