How Do Shamans Encounter Spirits? : Trance and Possession among Okinawan Yuta Reconsidered
Japanese review of cultural anthropology 2004 Hidekazu Sensui 1 citation
This article examines how a shamanistic worldview is constructed and sustained in Okinawa despite the near lack of the occurrence of trance state among shamans. Observers have typically explained the strong reality that shamans ascribe to supernatural beings by referring to their altered states of consciousness. Such a psychologizing perspective, however, does violence to the distinctive ways...