2025 Society for Anthropological Sciences Carol R. Ember Book Prize - Manvir Singh

In Shamanism: The Timeless Religion , Manvir Singh combines ethnography with cross-cultural analysis and insights from the cognitive sciences to explain why shamanic practices reliably emerge across human societies. He shows that shamanism endures as a powerful, recurrent cultural form because it taps into universal psychological mechanisms while adapting to diverse historical and social contexts.…