scholarly journals Vera Rubin (editor), Cannabis and culture, The Hague and Paris, Mouton, 1975, 8vo, pp. xiv, 598, illus., $24.95. - Timothy H. H. Thoresen (editor), Toward a science of man. Essays in the history of anthropology, The Hague and Paris, Mouton, 1975, 8vo, pp. xiv, 232, $14.95.

1977 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-471
Keyword(s):  
History Of Anthropology ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Hague

Slippage: An Anthropology of Shamanism

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-22
Author(s):  
Bruce Grant
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Real World ◽  
History Of Anthropology ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
History Of

If our knowledge of shamanism has been so abidingly partial, so impressively uneven, so deeply varied by history, and so enduringly skeptical for so long, how has its study come to occupy such pride of place in the anthropological canon? One answer comes in a history of social relations where shamans both are cast as translators of the unseen and are themselves sites of anxiety in a very real world, one of encounters across lines of gender, class, and colonial incursions often defined by race. This article contends that as anthropologists have cultivated a long and growing library of shamanic practice, many appear to have found, in a globally diverse range of spirit practitioners, translators across social worlds who are not unlike themselves, suggesting that in the shaman we find a remarkable history of anthropology.

Book Reviews

1962 ◽  
Vol 118 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-296
Author(s):  
Redactie KITLV
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
University Of Kansas ◽  
Instituut Voor ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Hague ◽  
New Britain ◽  
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