Editor
James R. Mathieu, Ph.D.
jmathieu@sas.upenn.edu




Expedition Magazine
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Volume 46, Number 1

Spring 2004

Special Issue: Shamanism


Cover: Photo by Deborah Kapchan. The Gnawa in the Tuileries Gardens.






Features

Shamanism and Spirit
Edith Turner

Shimmering Visions--Shamanistic Rock Art Images from the Republic of Kazakhstan
Kenneth Lymer

On the Dilemma of a Horn--The Horned Shamans of West Mexico
Elin Danien

Visionary Plants and Ecstatic Shamanism
Peter T. Furst

Special Features:

Moroccan Gnawa and Transglobal Trance--The Medium is the Music
Deborah Kapchan

The Complex Interplay of Culture and Nature--Along the Coast of South Central Ecuador
Michael Harris, Valentina Martinez, Wm. Jerald Kennedy, Charles Roberts, and James Gammack-Clark

 

Departments

From the Director

From the Editor

From the Archives--Goldberg Variations

Research Notes--A Storyteller in Modern Ireland

Meet the Curators--Richard Zettler

Book News & Reviews--New Perspectives on the Classics

Museum Mosaic--People, Places, Projects

Exhibit Notes--Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur