After a long wait of more than three years as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the change of the Chief Curator of the Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art and the renewal of the Editorial Team of its Bulletin, the special issue on Art and Shamanism. An ambitious project that initially contemplated 19 manuscripts and that, little by little, matured until it took its final form, made up of 12 articles that are the result of research on the relationship between shamanism and artistic manifestations throughout the American continent and the Iberian Peninsula. As a whole, the published writings express in an extraordinary way the state of the art, the current debates and the new investigations on an anthropological problem as old as it is current, since shamanism is still present, in one way or another,neo or following the ancestral traditions.