What has really been learned about shamanism?
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs January 1, 1989 R Noll 11 citations
Anthropological investigations of shamans and their altered states of consciousness have inherited prescriptive problems from psychology, including dichotomies such as conscious versus unconscious mental processes, objectivism versus subjectivism, environmentalism versus nativism, and others. These perspectives have colored assumptions in the field but have not prevented the acquisition of new knowledge about shamanism. However, a resolution of these problems remains lacking due to insufficient data.