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- Title
A Critique of Philosophical Shamanism.
- Authors
Hall, Joshua M.
- Abstract
Among Anthropologists, There Is A Fierce Controversy over the figure of the shaman, with some reserving the term for practitioners in hunter-gatherer societies in present-day Siberia (among whom the term originated), and others defining shaman more broadly to include any figure performing similar functions, from prehistory until today.[1] Though the exact nature of these functions (and whether there is one, and only one, figure who performs them) is central to this controversy, the majority view is helpfully summarized by Russian anthropologist Anna Kuznetsova. The community member would know the shaman, know the shaman's role in the community, and have reason to trust that the shaman will provide genuine and competent assistance - namely, because if not, the shaman stands to suffer negative consequences in the community (for malfeasance, incompetence, etc.). For example, in "Shamanic Urgency and Two-Way Movement as Writing Style in the Works of Gloria Anzaldúa", Betsy Dahms goes even further than Keating, citing Eliade in an explicit identification of Anzaldúa as a shaman. AnaLouise Keating, Anzaldúa's friend, coeditor, and literary trustee, has argued since her death that the shaman is a figure of central importance to Anzaldúa's work.[12] More precisely, she interprets Anzaldúa as offering what Keating terms "poet-shaman aesthetics.".
- Subjects
SHAMANISM; PERSONALITY (Theory of knowledge); IMAGINATION; NATIVE American women; INDIGENOUS peoples of the Americas
- Publication
Pluralist, 2022, Vol 17, Issue 2, p87
- ISSN
1930-7365
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5406/19446489.17.2.17