Douglas G. Sharon | |
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| Born | 1941/01/23 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Known for | Studying Peruvian uses of entheogenic and medicinal plants |
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| Fields | Anthropology |
| Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles |
Douglas Sharon is a Canadian 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 | |
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| 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 |
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Running time | 0:55:00 |
| Country | Canada |
| Languages | English and Spanish |
His ethnographic film entitled Eduardo the Healer[1] is utilized in university-level anthropology courses and has won awards at the American, Modern Language, and John Muir Medical film festivals.[citation needed] Sharon directs projects in cultural anthropology and lectures internationally on the integration of traditional healing practices with modern public health systems.[citation needed]
