01-28-2010, 07:57 AM
http://www.scribd.com/doc/17325757/ShamansNeoShamans2
Y de pilon incluye las referencias a Ramon Medina.
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The authenticity of Don Juan was accepted for six years, until Richard de Mille and Daniel Noel
both published their critical exposés of the Don Juan books in 1976 (De Mille produced a further
edited volume in 1980). Most anthropologists had been convinced of Castanedas authenticity
until now - indeed, they had had little reason to question it - but De Milles meticulous analysis, in
particular, debunked Castanedas work. Beneath the veneer of anthropological fact stood huge
discrepancies in the data: the books contradict one another in details of time, location, sequence,
and description of events (Schultz in Clifton 1989:45). There are possible published sources for
almost everything Carlos wrote (see especially Beals 1978), and at least one encounter is
ethnographic plagiarism: Ramon Medina, a Huichol shaman-informant to Myerhoff (1974),
displayed superhuman acrobatic feats at a waterfall and, according to Myerhoff, in the presence
of Castaneda (Fikes 1993). Then, in A Separate Reality, Don Juans friend Don Genaro makes a
similar leap over a waterfall with the aid of supernatural power. In addition to these
inconsistencies, various authors suggest aspects of the Sonoran desert Carlos describes are
environmentally implausible, and, the Yaqui shamanism he divulges is not Yaqui at all but a
synthesis of shamanisms from elsewhere (e.g. Beals 1978).
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WOLVES - Carrier of spirits, Kumukemai, the wolf, is honored in all peyote ceremonies. Many Huichols believe they are descendents of the "Wolf-People" of primordial times. Huichol shamans claim to possess the power to transform themselves into spirited wolves.
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Y de pilon incluye las referencias a Ramon Medina.
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The authenticity of Don Juan was accepted for six years, until Richard de Mille and Daniel Noel
both published their critical exposés of the Don Juan books in 1976 (De Mille produced a further
edited volume in 1980). Most anthropologists had been convinced of Castanedas authenticity
until now - indeed, they had had little reason to question it - but De Milles meticulous analysis, in
particular, debunked Castanedas work. Beneath the veneer of anthropological fact stood huge
discrepancies in the data: the books contradict one another in details of time, location, sequence,
and description of events (Schultz in Clifton 1989:45). There are possible published sources for
almost everything Carlos wrote (see especially Beals 1978), and at least one encounter is
ethnographic plagiarism: Ramon Medina, a Huichol shaman-informant to Myerhoff (1974),
displayed superhuman acrobatic feats at a waterfall and, according to Myerhoff, in the presence
of Castaneda (Fikes 1993). Then, in A Separate Reality, Don Juans friend Don Genaro makes a
similar leap over a waterfall with the aid of supernatural power. In addition to these
inconsistencies, various authors suggest aspects of the Sonoran desert Carlos describes are
environmentally implausible, and, the Yaqui shamanism he divulges is not Yaqui at all but a
synthesis of shamanisms from elsewhere (e.g. Beals 1978).
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WOLVES - Carrier of spirits, Kumukemai, the wolf, is honored in all peyote ceremonies. Many Huichols believe they are descendents of the "Wolf-People" of primordial times. Huichol shamans claim to possess the power to transform themselves into spirited wolves.
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