Bruce Grant

Slippage: An Anthropology of Shamanism

Annual Review of Anthropology October 21, 2021 Bruce Grant 14 citations

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...