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The Structure Of Finnish Shamanic Therapy, Matt T. Salo
The Structure Of Finnish Shamanic Therapy, Matt T. Salo
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This study is concerned with the structure of the traditional shamanic therapy in the rural Finnish society of the past one hundred years. The emphasis is on the organization of the most salient dimensions of the shaman-client interaction and their causal antecedents.
As a secondary objective, an evaluation is made of the utility of oral narratives for anthropological research into shamanism. The kinds of information they provide, the lacunae and biases they possess are discussed.
The primary sources of the study consist of oral narratives, such as memorates, belief stories, legends and rite descriptions, from Finnish archives and from the …