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 prehistoric peoples have holy men and women that may have worn masks or had elements of animal symbolism in their ritual practices? Maybe? The closest we can get to this would be, say, "druids" but again lots of issues there.
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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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Replying to @AdmiralHip
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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Thus it is not okay to use on several levels.
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