The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru - Bonnie Glass-Coffin "Faith & Courage" full of honor

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The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru - Bonnie Glass-Coffin "Faith & Courage" full of honorIn a 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. These alternate with chapters in which she describes the crisis that rocked her identity, her first contact with a female healer, and her own tumultuous but ultimately rewarding healing journey under two female shamans. 17 photos.