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Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor, Divinity School; Professor, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago.
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Vilmos Diószegi
Research Fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. Author of Tracing Shamans in Siberia; editor of Popular Beliefs and Folklore Tradition in Siberia.
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shamanism, religious phenomenon centerd on the shaman, a person believed to achieve various powers through trance or ecstatic religious experience. Although shamans’ repertoires vary from one culture to the next, they are typically thought to have the ability to heal the sick, to communicate with the otherworld, and often to escort the souls of the dead to that otherworld. The term shamanism comes from the Manchu-Tungus word šaman. The noun is formed from the verb ša- ‘to know’; thus, a shaman is literally “one who knows.” The shamans recorded in historical ethnographies have included women, men, and transgender individuals of ...(100 of 4596 words)

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