People on this forum have a really bad habit of associating curanderos, ayahuasceros, tobbocaros, vegetalistas, brujos, roadmen, medicine men, healers, witches, spirtual leaders, etc... with the term "shamanism".

I'd suggest any of these people practicing their path with sincerity would never refer to themselves with the Tungus term "shaman". I'd also suggest to be quite wary of any of these people claiming such a title.

I made my orignal post in jest, but outside of Siberia, shamanism really does boil down to the level of new age weekend workshop certifications and the occasional outdated anthropology textbook. To lump the unique practices of peoples of diverse cultures from around the globe into the 19th century western-centric anthropologist definition shaman is to display ignorance of and disrespect toward the work that they do. Imo/Ime anyway.