Case file · Sacred site
Harner among the Shuar
Anthropologist Michael Harner lived with the Shuar of Ecuador's Amazon in 1956-57, recording their belief that ordinary life is illusion and that true reality and arutam soul-power are reached through visions.
1956 CE · -2.30, -78.12 · status: account
The account
His book The Jivaro (1972) became a classic of Amazonian ethnography. Position approximate, near Macas.