Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-American anthropologist and author (born 1925)

Carlos Castaneda

American anthropologist (1925–1998)

Carlos César Salvador Arana, better known as Carlos Castaneda, was an American anthropologist and writer. Starting in 1968, Castaneda published a series of books that describe a training in shamanism that he received under the tutelage of a Yaqui "Man of Knowledge" named don…