Transsingularities: the cognitive foundations of shamanism in Northern Asia
Social Anthropology May 1, 2015 Charles Stépanoff 12 citations
In Tuva (Southern Siberia), people expect that each class of beings contains singular individuals that distinguish themselves by atypical bodily and behavioural features and capacities. Among humans, such beings are shamans, but Tuvans also identify shamans among animals and trees. Even in the landscape, some atypical places are strong personalities. I call ‘transsingularity’ the supposed...