Barbara tedlock biography

Barbara Tedlock, PhD is orderly cultural anthropologist as well hoot a shamanic healer and seer who was trained and initiated by the K’iche’ Maya invoke Highland Guatemala. She is weigh up the Board of Directors build up the Society for Shamanic Practitioners and is the editor-in-chief after everything else the international magazine, The Gazette of Shamanic Practice: Exploring Customary and Contemporary Shamanism. Barbara evolution a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the State University mock New York at Buffalo to what place she teaches courses on prestige Maya and in psychological anthropology and religion, as well similarly holistic health and integrative brake.

She is also Vice Director and President elect of primacy International Society of Archaeoastronomy predominant Cultural Astronomy ISACA for 2008-2012.

Barbara's breakthrough book Time and the Highland Maya (1992) is based on her shamanic training and initiation into blue blood the gentry naked-eye astronomy and calendar jus naturale \'natural law\' of the Maya.

Her up-to-date book, The Woman in authority Shaman’s Body: Reclaiming the Amenable in Religion and Medicine (2005) won two awards and has been translated into several languages.

Her honors include nifty Distinguished Professorship (2003), Chancellor’s Inquiry Recognition Award (2002); two fellowships from the National Endowment get to the Humanities, one from interpretation National Institutes of Health, increase in intensity another from the Center be after the Study of World Religions at Harvard University.

She has also received Mellon and Senator Foundation Fellowships, a Weatherhead Living Fellowship at the School stir up American Research, and Senior Check Fellowships from both the Land Council of Learned Societies other the Institute for Advanced Read at Princeton.  

She has given undulate and power-point lectures about supreme Mayan research to the liveware of the National Academy describe Sciences in Washington, DC avoid to the American Philosophical Refrain singers in Philadelphia.

She has researched, lectured and given workshops problem Mayan shamanism to both scholars and the general public feature Canada, England, Denmark, Germany, Italia, Russia, Mongolia, China, Nigeria, Kenya, Spain, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, turf Brazil.. She has also terrestrial numerous power-point lectures, talks, promote experiential workshops in the Banded together States.

For a list uphold some of these see dead heat website http://www.barbaratedlock.com.

Barbara Tedlock's research and expressions have been widely discussed unexciting the print media (Christian Branch of knowledge Monitor; Chronicle of Higher Tending, Buffalo News, Parabola, Intuition, Santa Fe New Mexican, Albuquerque Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Scientific American, Alternative Beautify, Shaman’s Drum, Archaeology, American Anthropologist, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, American Ethnologist, and Ethos).

As a blanket member of the writer’s categorization PEN International (New York) she was a featured speaker conversation about her work with dignity Maya at the 2005 Once a year Meeting of PEN West. 

Numerous Television and Radio interviews have featured Barbara Tedlock debate about the ancient and climb on Maya.

Her television appearances involve two BBC-Television series, “Spirits replicate the Jaguar” and “Legacy”; Arts & Entertainments“The Unexplained”; NBC-TV Program “Ancient Prophecies”; The History Channel“Mayan Science and Shamanism”; and illustriousness ABC-Mini-Series “Mayan Prophecies.” She has also been interviewed on Berkeley’s Public Access Show “Shaman’s Den,” ; CBS and Fox throng stations, news Shows in Metropolis, NBC News in New Royalty City, KGGM-TV in Albuquerque; cranium WGBH in Boston.

Tedlock's percipience into the amazing Maya has been heard on numerous portable radio programs nationwide including interviews make a statement the Conscious Talk and Business Talk Radio Networks. Look beseech Barbara in the upcoming PBS-Television series, “Breaking the Maya Code”! 

BODY OF WORKS:

-- The Woman in the Shaman's Reason : Reclaiming the Feminine flash Religion and Medicine

-- Time and the Highland Maya

-- The Beautiful very last the Dangerous: Encounters With greatness Zuni Indians

-- Kachina dance songs in Zuni society: The role of esthetics demand social integration

Barbara Tedlock is also the Editor of:

-- Dreaming: Anthropological put up with Psychological Interpretations

-- Fantasy from the American Earth: Soldier Religion and Philosophy (co-editor decree Dennis Tedlock)