Abstract It is known that the first Europeans to arrive in Amazonia did not recognize Indigenous ritual practices as religious. Only in the nineteenth century, with the advent of anthropology, especially with the Taylorian conceptualization of animism, did shamanism, a practice associated with this ontology and widespread in the Amazonian world, begin to be recognized in the literature as...
Abstract Despite repeated pronouncements concerning its imminent death as a topic worthy of anthropological attention, shamanism has experienced a revival. However, it has not been subject to or the vehicle of much new and influential theorizing. Based on ethnographic work in Mongolia and Inner Asia, this chapter seeks to do some of the conceptual groundwork for a workable theorization of...