Michael J. Harner (edit name/settings)

Michael Harner teaches anthropology in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York, and is currently co-chairman of the Anthropology Section of the New York Academy of Sciences. He has been visiting professor at Columbia, Yale, and the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his Ph.D. and served as assistant director of the Lowie Museum of Anthropology, His field research has taken him repeatedly to the Upper Amazon forest of South America as well as to various parts of western North America and Mexico. Michael Harner's books include The Jivaro, Hallucinogens and Shamanism, and a recent novel, Cannibal, which he co-authored.