The anthropologist who became the leader of the shaman cult

While browsing an antique shop in Quito, I came across a book called Shabono: A Visit to a Remote and Magical World in the South American Rain Forest, written by an anthropologist named Florinda Donner. Published in 1982, I expected it to be like most academic texts: interesting but long-winded and dusty. Instead, I got […]


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