Douglas Sharon is a Canadian cultural anthropologist (UCLA), ethnobotanist and shamanism scholar who has directed both the University of California/Berkeley's Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology and the San Diego Museum of Man. He has conducted more than 40 years of field research and published on pre-Columbian and modern shamanic practices in Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador and Bolivia.
Eduardo the healer
Directed by
Richard Cowan
Based on
Wizard of the Four Winds by Douglas Sharon
Produced by
Douglas G. Sharon and Richard Cowan
Starring
Eduardo Calderon Palomino
Narrated by
Vic Perrin, Roberto Tafur and Roberto Cruzalegui
Release date
1978 (1978)
Running time
0:55:00
Country
Canada
Languages
English and Spanish
His ethnographic film entitled Eduardo the Healer[1] is utilized in university-level anthropology courses and has won awards at the American, Modern Language, and John Muir Medical film festivals.[citation needed] Sharon directs projects in cultural anthropology and lectures internationally on the integration of traditional healing practices with modern public health systems.[citation needed]
Bibliography
As a sole author
Wizard of the Four Winds—A Shaman's Story (1978). New. York: The Free Press.
Shamanism & the sacred cactus: ethnoarchaeological evidence for San Pedro use in northern Perú (2000). San Diego: San Diego Museum of Man.
As an editor
Mesas & Cosmologies in Mesoamerica (2003) (ed.). San Diego: San Diego Museum of Man.
As coauthor
Sorcery and Shamanism: Curanderos and Clients in Northern Peru with Donald Joralemon. (1993) Salt Lak City: University of Utah.
Academic Articles
A Peruvian Curandero’s Séance: Power and Balance by Sharon, Douglas C. (1976). In The Realm of the Extra-Human: Agents and Audiences (9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago). A. Bharati, ed., pp. 371–81. The Hague: Mouton.
Distribution of the Mesa in Latin America by Sharon, Douglas C. (1976). In Journal of Latin American Lore 2(1):75-91.
The Magic Cactus: Ethnoarchaeological Continuity in Peru by Sharon, Douglas C. & Christopher B. Donnan (1977). In Archaeology 30 (6):374-381. New York: The Archeological Institute of American.
