The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru - Bonnie Glass-Coffin South American and enlightened intuition

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Through this relationship they realize that all things exist as unique strands in "the great web of life

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The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru - Bonnie Glass-Coffin South American and enlightened intuitionIn this uniquely personal account of the lives and healing arts of female shamans in northern Peru, the author alternates diaristic writings about her own experiences with ethnographic description. Her analytical essays explore the concepts of sorcery, shamanism, and witchcraft, case studies of Peruvian women and their ritual healing techniques, the healers' religious and symbolic space, and the healing attributes unique to women. They alternate with