Barbara Tedlock

Tedlock and Mayan Shamanic Teacher

Barbara Tedlock, Ph.D., is the granddaughter of an Ojibwe midwife and herbalist and was trained and initiated as a shaman by the K'iche' Maya of highland Guatemala. She is currently Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at SUNY Buffalo. The author of four previous books and numerous essays, she divides her time between Buffalo, New York, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.