Hi
I'm looking for transcripts of interviews with indigenous shamans and would welcome information on where I might one or more of these.
The shamanic tradition is unimportant, as is geography. What is important is that they are complete interviews with shamans who are indigenous to their community.
Grateful for any help with this.
Where I go the shamans talk to nobody. If anyone wants information about what they do, they just have to hang around and watch for a long time.
If you are interested in classical sources, I would recommend the account of Knud Rasmussen (himself an ethnologist of Inuit descent) who interviewed the Caribou Inuit shaman Igjugȃrjuk more than a century ago.
See:
Igjugȃrjuk and K. Rasmussen 2001 Seeking Knowledge in the Solitude of Nature. In Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge, edited by J. Narby and F. Huxley, pp. 81- 83. Putnam, New York.
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