‘This is your mission’: why one Brazilian doctor is training to be a shaman

‘This is your mission’: why one Brazilian doctor is training to be a shaman

Source: The Guardian

Adana Omágua Kambeba fought to become one of the country’s first Indigenous woman doctors. Now she wants to bring the worlds of traditional and western medicine closer – and help Amazonian communities in the process

Adana Omágua Kambeba was still a little girl when adults started coming to her for advice, asking how to deal with their problems. She liked to speak to plants and to smoke, puzzling the elders. No one had taught her that – it came naturally.
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