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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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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I've always called early Irish holy men druids. What's the more accurate term? Thanks.
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For pre-Christian Ireland that is accurate. I am talking about the Picts, who may or may not have had druids.
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Shaman is Russian and became a loanword in German. Why is this a problem? Genuinely curious.
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It’s not Russian, it’s derived from (likely) the Evenki people in Siberia, who are an Indigenous group. It may be problematic even then as it is not the original word but interpreted through other colonial languages for the West.
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