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isn't the term "shaman", as is used today, originally defined by western anthropologists?according to wikipediathat could also be applied to ayahuasqueros, curanderos, and yes, even new age weekend workshops. who cares what the north asians did. i'm sure what they were doing a few centuries ago differed greatly from what was being practices 5 thousand to possibly 10, 15, or 30 thousand years prior. i think they may have even found evidence that neanderthals practiced shamanism. neanderthals. does that make the tungas the true shaman, or neanderthals? or did the tungas practice the exact same thing for all those thousands of years?i'd say, the map is not the territory. all things evolve. the idea of shamanism isn't frozen in time to the manner in which some white people decided to classify the 17th century tungas.
isn't the term "shaman", as is used today, originally defined by western anthropologists?
according to wikipedia
that could also be applied to ayahuasqueros, curanderos, and yes, even new age weekend workshops. who cares what the north asians did. i'm sure what they were doing a few centuries ago differed greatly from what was being practices 5 thousand to possibly 10, 15, or 30 thousand years prior. i think they may have even found evidence that neanderthals practiced shamanism. neanderthals. does that make the tungas the true shaman, or neanderthals? or did the tungas practice the exact same thing for all those thousands of years?
i'd say, the map is not the territory. all things evolve. the idea of shamanism isn't frozen in time to the manner in which some white people decided to classify the 17th century tungas.
