Really need white anthopologists, archaeologists, and historians to stop referring to religious people in W. Europe as 'shamans'. Stop using Indigenous terminology like that. It's irresponsible and inaccurate.
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Did the Picts have druids? They may well have, or they had a comparable group of religious people with a different name. There are plenty of issues with the term but it's preferable to 'shaman'.
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My feelings on "shaman" are the same as my feelings on "tribe". Problematic terms that were baked into the racist, colonialist underpinnings of anthro/arky that still get used uncritically in the West by white scholars.
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Indigenous peoples get to decide how and when they can use these terms, if they want to reclaim them or not. That is not a debate that settlers need to step into. We can however STOP using these terms in our own work.
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As I said: inaccurate, imprecise, problematic.
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