Essay Archive - Shamanism
Shamanism
Shamanism in Anthropology has been an entity in a constant metamorphosis.
It has always been considered exotic and its existence around the globe was
never contradicted. However, over the years it did not receive the scholarly
attention that it so requires. The age of discovery garnered a multitude of
information on shamanism all over the world. The reporters invested a great
deal of accuracy in the gathering of the information, but their observational
skills were mostly underdeveloped. Furthermore as could be expected, they saw
and evaluated things solely on the basis of Europe....
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