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Wikipedia: Shamanism
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The English-language Wikipedia article on shamanism, covering the practice's Siberian and Central Asian documentation, the Tungusic origin of the term, and its central features.
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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamanism
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Wikipedia: Shamanism
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Shamanism is a spiritual practice that involves a practitioner (shaman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance.
Claims Backed By This Source (12 claims)
This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 connected. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Ethnography and Cultural Practices, 7 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 connected, 3 general references.
- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
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8Ethnography and Cultural Practices
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1Ethnography and Cultural Practices
General References
3Ethnography and Cultural Practices
Dissenting Readings (1 dissenting reading)
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These scholars argue that treating "shamanism" as one coherent, comparable global religion is a Western scholarly construct rather than a fact about the practices themselves. Kehoe holds that the diverse practices grouped under the label cannot be generalized easily, accurately or usefully into one category; Rydving has argued for abandoning the terms "shaman" and "shamanism" outright as scientific illusions; Piers Vitebsky notes there is no record of a genuinely pure, unified shamanistic society despite real similarities across cases. The dissent is about the CATEGORY, not about whether any individual documented practice occurred.
A dissenting reading, from an independent laneWikipedia: Shamanism, Wikipedia
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