Anthropologist Piers Vitebsky suggests through his work with the Reindeer People that the usage of this term is appropriate though fragmented, and disagrees with Alice Kehoe who suggests the usage outside Siberia is cultural appropriation.
Anthropologist Piers Vitebsky suggests through his work with the Reindeer People that the usage of this term is appropriate though fragmented, and disagrees with Alice Kehoe who suggests the usage outside Siberia is cultural appropriation. Coming from the Turkic-Tungus word for "he or she who knows," an important common feature of this group or practice is an initiatory crisis and can be related to the kundalini process in Hinduism.  According to Mircea Eliade, typical practitioners are able to transverse the axis mundi usually through the use of ethenogens or auto-hypnotically. For 10 points, name this group or practice which refers to individuals who are capable of spiritual healing and engage in ecstatic trances sometimes derisively called "witch doctors."
Anthropologist Piers Vitebsky suggests through his work with the Reindeer People that the usage of this term is appropriate though fragmented, and disagrees with Alice Kehoe who suggests the usage outside Siberia is cultural appropriation.
shamanism [do not accept or prompt on "witch doctors"]