What does Humphrey offer as an alternate framework for analyzing shamanic practices and specialists?
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 … Read more