Transcultural shamanic healing: A Washo exampleFootnote¹

The fieldwork on which this paper is based was carried out in Nevada during June‐August 1964, under the auspices of the Tri‐Institution Field Training Program in Anthropology and the sponsorship of the University of Nevada with a grant from the National Science Foundation. I am deeply indebted to Warren L. d'Azevedo for his general commentaries on the Washo, and to Peter Worsley, and members of the Seminar on Sociological Theory at the University of Manchester, for their pertinent comments.

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