The Shaman's Quest in Africa

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  • Ioan M. Lewis
چکیده

Mirceaclassic survey of shamanism across the world explicitly omittedAfrica from consideration Ironically this has encouraged the misleading impressionthat there are virtually no shamans in Africa and that the theme of mystical flightis also absent This view elaborated by Luc De Heusch and many other anthroTHEQUEST IN AFRICA135 pologists ignores or underestimates great deal of evidence to the contrary andcan be traced ultimately toevolutionary and fundamentally misleadingrepresentation of the classic Siberian data on shamanism As far as British socialanthropologists are concerned the reluctance to apply the term shamanism toAfrican phenomena illustrates their persistent hostility towards descriptive categorieswhich they associate with diffusionism

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تاریخ انتشار 2017