Answer question number 2, In the essay, “Shamanic Practices and the State in Northern Asia”, Caroline
Humphrey criticizes the way that most scholarly studies of shamans have
analyzed shamans and shamanism. How have scholars typically studied and
analyzed shamans and shamanic practices? What is Humphrey’s critique of
these approaches? What does Humphrey offer as an alternate framework for
analyzing shamanic practices and specialists?
Refer to PDF in files and if possible also refer to Chapter 8 or 6 Chapter 8 of Anthropology of Religion, Magic and Witchcraft pdf link: http://kevinluo.net/books/book_The%20Anthropology%20of%20Religion,%20Magic,%20and%20Witchcraft%20-%20Rebecca%20L.%20Stein.pdf
