Douglas Sharon

Douglas C. Sharon
Nationality	American
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	University of California, Los Angeles
Known for	studying Peruvian uses of entheogenic and medicinal plants
Scientific career
Fields	anthropology
Institutions	University of California, Los Angeles

Douglas Sharon is an American 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
Running time	0:55:00
Country	USA
Languages	English and Spanish

His ethnographic film entitled Eduardo the Healer is utilized in university-level anthropology courses and has won awards at the American, Modern Language, and John Muir Medical film festivals. Sharon directs projects in cultural anthropology and lectures internationally on the integration of traditional healing practices with modern public health systems.

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.

See also

• Alana Cordy-Collins
• Luis Millones Santagadea

External links

• Renowned scholar of Peruvian traditions to speak at Anthropology Museum Utah State University
• UC Berkeley's anthropology museum announces the hiring of its first full-time director University of Berkeley
• Faculty Research Spotlight: Douglas Sharon Latin American Studies Association, San Diego.
• Review of his 1978 Eduardo the Healer documentary Wiley Online Library
• WorldCat Identities Douglas Sharon
• Research Gate Douglas Sharon
• IdRef Douglas Sharon