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Douglas G. Sharon | |
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| Born | January 23, 1941 |
| Education | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Known for | Studying Peruvian uses of entheogenic and medicinal plants |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Anthropology |
| Workplaces | 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.
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.[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]
