Shamans are an integral part of communal religious traditions,
professionals who make use of personal supernatural experiences,
especially trance, as a resource for the wider community's physical
and spiritual well-being. 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 'discovery' in the context of eighteenth and nineteenth
century colonization in Siberia, the Americas, and Asia. It
explores the beliefs and rituals typical of shamanic traditions, as
well as the roles of shamans within their communities. It also
surveys the variety of techniques used by shamans cross-culturally,
including music, entheogens, material culture and verbal
performance. The final chapters examine attempts to suppress or
eradicate shamanic traditions, the revitalization of shamanism in
postcolonial situations, and the development of new forms of
shamanism within new cultural and social contexts.
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