BBC: Carlos Castaneda ( English)
What happens when anthropology goes bad The last in this series of great yarns from the world of anthropology is a story of sex, drugs and a long lost body in the desert. At its heart is the mysterious figure of Carlos Castaneda, to some a guru, to others a phoney. Carlos Castaneda is the anthropologist who stepped over the line. Sent to study the works of shamans in Mexico, he claimed to have become a shaman himself. In a series of multimillion selling books he claimed to have learned from a Yaqui India
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