Shamans: The next generation

Natural History | March 1, 1997| | Copyright

In an old photograph from the Museum's archives, a Koryak shaman beats her drum and chants herself into a trance, preparing to confront the spirits that have stolen her patient's soul. Eighteenth-century travelers to Siberia brought back descriptions of such shamans, who entered into frenzied trance states at will and claimed extraordinary powers through intimate knowledge of the spirits. Europeans in the Age of Enlightenment reacted to these accounts with disgust and fascination. These two contradictory responses are still with us as anthropologists describe the activities of shamans all ...

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