{"product_id":"native-north-american-shamanism-valerio-barsacchi-9798195790578","title":"Native North American Shamanism: Ritual, Vision and the Crisis of Modern Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when a civilization loses its rituals of passage?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is not a practical guide to shamanic techniques, nor a romanticized vision of Indigenous spirituality. Instead, it is an anthropological and philosophical exploration of the ritual structures that once oriented human existence within many Native North American traditions - and of what their progressive disappearance reveals about the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough themes such as the Vision Quest, the Sweat Lodge, the Sun Dance, healing rituals, symbolic language, dreams, animal allies, initiation, and the relational conception of the sacred, this work examines how ritual once functioned not merely as belief, but as a structure capable of transforming crisis into orientation and experience into responsibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the same time, the book confronts the historical fracture produced by colonization, forced assimilation, and the prohibition of Indigenous ceremonies, while critically examining contemporary neo-shamanism and the risks of spiritual appropriation detached from communal and cultural context.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving beyond both exoticism and reductionism, \u003ci\u003eNative North American Shamanism\u003c\/i\u003e proposes a deeper question: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens to individuals and societies when symbolic structures capable of guiding transformation disappear?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining anthropology, philosophy, symbolic analysis, and reflections on modernity, this work offers not rituals to imitate, but structures to understand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause without form, transformation becomes fragmentation.\u003cbr\u003eWithout return, no crossing is complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in Italian, this international English edition preserves the conceptual structure and philosophical voice of the original work while adapting it for an international readership.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Valerio Barsacchi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798195790578\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.30d","brand":"Valerio Barsacchi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874657743103,"sku":"9798195790578","price":15.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/native-north-american-shamanism-valerio-barsacchi-9798195790578","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}