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So a broad definition of shamanism would include any practi tioners who enter controlled altered states of consciousness no matter which particular states these may be.
Shamanism is an ancient human institution that recurs because of the capacity of cultural evolution to produce practices adapted to innate psychological tendencies. Keywords: anthropology; culture; division of labor; evolution; magic; professions; religion; shamanism; trance
WHAT IS A SHAMAN? DEFINITION, ORIGIN AND DISTRIBUTION. R. Walsh. Published 2001. Sociology. There is currently unprecedented interest, excitement and confusion about shamanism. Shamanic literature, rituals and workshops are proliferating and have spawned a veritable cottage industry.
Based on ethnographic analyses of Eskimo data, this paper argues that the trance model and shaman/priest dualism, which have long been used to define the concept shaman or shamanism, fail to interpret the Alaskan Eskimo case.
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Shamans and Religion provides the history of actual shamans' religious practices in Siberia and adjacent Asia, and the imperial Western concept of a primitive, ancient non-Western religion found among the Others––the conquered, colonized non-Western nations. See full PDF. download Download PDF.
This Introduction surveys research on the topic of shamanism around the world, detailing the archaeology and earliest development of shamanic traditions as well as their scientific discov-“ ery in the context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century colonization ” in Siberia, the Americas, and Asia.
